This is the fifth in the HILT series of conferences and workshops focused on the use of High Integrity Language Technology to address challenging issues in the engineering of software-intensive critical systems. HILT 2018 will focus on addressing cybersecurity and cyber-resilience issues that arise in real-time, embedded, and/or safety-critical systems. Submissions are encouraged describing theoretical and practical efforts related to the use of safe languages, formal methods, model-based development, and advanced static analysis to identify and mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software-intensive systems. The workshop will bring together academic, industrial, and government researchers and practitioners focused on the use of these advanced language technology and tools, with a particular focus on addressing the growing cybersecurity threats.

Accepted Papers

Title
Architecture-level security in a safety-critical system
HILT
Minimal Specifications for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
HILT
Soundness of a Dataflow Analysis for Memory Monitoring
HILT
SPARK by Example: an introduction to formal verification through the standard C++ library
HILT
Tool support for Confidentiality by Construction
HILT

Keynotes at HILT 2018

Monday Keynote: Bob Martin, MITRE

Common Vulnerabilities Enumeration (CVE), Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), and Common Quality Enumeration (CQE) – Attempting to systematically catalog the safety and security challenges for modern, networked, software-intensive systems.

Tuesday Keynote: Ray Richards, DARPA

DARPA’s new Cyber-Assured Systems Engineering (CASE) Program – Motivations, Challenges, and Technical Approaches to addressing cyber-resilience in critical software-intensive systems

Please click on the Program tab above for the full HILT 2018 program details


HILT 2018 Workshop Sponsors

Gold: AdaCore

Bronze: GrammaTech


Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts

HILT 2018

Workshop on Languages and Tools for Ensuring Cyber-Resilience in Critical Software-Intensive Systems

As part of SPLASH 2018, November 5 & 6, 2018, Boston, MA, USA

Sponsored by ACM SIGAda

The High Integrity Language Technology (HILT) 2018 Workshop is focused on the cyber-resilience needs of critical software systems, where such a system must be trusted to maintain a continual delivery of services, as well as ensuring safety in its operations. Such needs have common goals and shared strategies, tools, and techniques, recognizing the multiple interactions between security and safety.

We encourage papers and extended abstracts relating to:

  • Language features that can be used to build security and/or safety into software-intensive systems; Approaches to apply effectively the emerging technologies of AI and Machine Learning in critical software systems;
  • Mechanisms that can be used to understand, certify, and manage systems that are “data driven,” relying on “soft code,” where control flow and algorithms are expressed using data rather than “hard code” expressed directly in programming languages;
  • Extending contract-based programming to specifying security resistance and resilience properties as well as safety and/or correctness properties;
  • Strategies to minimize risk when applying complex software requirements to cyber-physical systems;
  • Modeling and/or programming language features and analysis techniques that aid in code analysis and verification and that increase the level of abstraction and expressiveness;
  • Language features that support continuous requirements maturation to support evolving needs, particularly in cyber-physical systems, while ensuring that security and safety properties are preserved.

This workshop is designed as a forum for communities of researchers and practitioners from academic, industrial, and governmental settings, to come together, share experiences, and forge partnerships focused on integrating and deploying tool and language combinations to address the challenges of building cyber-resilient software-intensive systems. The workshop will be a combination of presentations and panel discussions, with one or more invited speakers.

Attendees wishing to present at the workshop should prepare full papers (approx. 6-8 pages), or extended abstracts (approx. 2-4 pages) for their proposed presentations, and the workshop program committee will select presentations and organize them into sessions. Other interested participants are welcome to register for the HILT 2018 Workshop as part of their SPLASH 2018 registration.

  • Aug 1 now Aug 17: Papers or Extended abstracts due;
  • Sep 1 now Sep 17: Notification of submissions accepted for presentation
  • Oct 1 now Oct 10: Final submissions due
  • Nov 5&6: Workshop as part of SPLASH 2018

Please submit papers and extended abstracts, by Aug 17, 2018, on HotCRP: https://hilt18.hotcrp.com/

Workshop Co-Chairs

  • Bill Bail, MITRE
  • Tucker Taft, AdaCore, Inc

Organizing Committee

  • Dirk Craeynest, ACM SIGAda International Representative, KU Leuven
  • Drew Hamilton, Chair, ACM SIGAda, Mississippi State University, CCI
  • Clyde Roby, Secretary-Treasurer, ACM SIGAda, Institute for Defense Analyses
  • Alok Srivastava, Editor, ACM Ada Letters, Engility Corp.
  • Ricky E. Sward, Past Chair, ACM SIGAda, MITRE

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Dates
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Mon 5 Nov

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13:30 - 15:00
IIHILT at Franklin
Chair(s): William Bail The MITRE Corporation
13:30
45m
Talk
Tool support for Confidentiality by Construction
HILT
S: Tobias Runge TU Braunschweig, S: Ina Schaefer Technische Universität Braunschweig, Alexander Knüppel TU Braunschweig, Germany, Loek Cleophas Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Stellenbosch University, Derrick Kourie Stellenbosch University, Bruce Watson Stellenbosch University; and Centre for AI Research, CSIR
14:15
45m
Other
Panel on Language-based Security
HILT
P: Stephen Chong Harvard University, Ina Schaefer Technische Universität Braunschweig, Tobias Runge TU Braunschweig, Lucas Wagner Rockwell Collins, Sam Procter Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Tucker Taft AdaCore
15:30 - 17:00
IIIHILT at Franklin
Chair(s): Peter Chapin Vermont Technical College
15:30
30m
Short-paper
SPARK by Example: an introduction to formal verification through the standard C++ library
HILT
Léo Creuse ISAE, Joffrey Huguet ISAE, P: Christophe Garion ISAE-SUPAERO, Jerome Hugues ISAE
16:00
30m
Short-paper
Soundness of a Dataflow Analysis for Memory Monitoring
HILT
P: Dara Ly CEA LIST, Nikolai Kosmatov CEA List, Frederic Loulergue Northern Arizona University, Julien Signoles CEA LIST
16:30
25m
Short-paper
Minimal Specifications for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities
HILT
P: Andrew Berns University of Northern Iowa, James Curbow University of Northern Iowa, Joshua Hilliard University of Northern Iowa, Sheriff Jorkeh University of Northern Iowa, Miho Sanders University of Northern Iowa
16:55
5m
Social Event
6:30PM HILT Banquet at Legal Seafoods, Park Plaza, preceded by SIGAda EC meeting from 5:15 to 6:15PM
HILT

Tue 6 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

08:30 - 10:00
Keynote: RichardsHILT at Franklin
Chair(s): Tucker Taft AdaCore
08:30
15m
Awards
SIGAda Awards and Sponsor Intros
HILT
Tucker Taft AdaCore
08:45
20m
Talk
SAFECode.org and Secure Software Development Practices
HILT
Eric Baize SAFECode / Dell
09:05
55m
Talk
DARPA CASE program, motivation and challengesKeynote
HILT
10:30 - 12:00
IVHILT at Franklin
Chair(s): Alok Srivastava SAIC
10:30
45m
Talk
SpeAR – Using a formal specification language for safety and security
HILT
Lucas Wagner Rockwell Collins
11:15
45m
Talk
Architecture-level security in a safety-critical system
HILT
S: Sam Procter Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Peter Feiler Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
15:30 - 17:00
Showcase & WrapupHILT at Franklin
Chair(s): Tucker Taft AdaCore
15:30
25m
Industry talk
Security Showcae -- Modernizing Static Analysis Tools to Facilitate Integrations
HILT
Paul Anderson GrammaTech, Inc
15:55
25m
Industry talk
Security Showcase -- Ensuring Cyber Resilience through Entropy-Augmented Replication
HILT
Mario Troiani Virtual Software Systems
16:20
25m
Industry talk
Security Showcase -- SPARK Formal Verification for Security
HILT
Tucker Taft AdaCore
16:45
15m
Day closing
Workshop Wrapup
HILT
Tucker Taft AdaCore