Very enjoyable international collaboration is happening in these days at RCL!

Today we had a seminar joining together people with both the DEVASSES and the CECRIS projects. Beáta Hergovics and Máté Tóth are testing engineers from Prolan in Budapest, Hungary, and are currently visiting RCL for a short period to work on the CECRIS project.

Lucas Leal is a Master's student at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil, and he will stay in Florence for a three-months secondment to work in the DEVASSES project. During his secondment he will work on "Model-Based Online Testing for Dynamic SOA"; this seminar was the opportunity to present the initial idea and discuss the topic with the other researchers.

Prof. Henrique Madeira, from the University of Coimbra in Portugal was also attending the workshop. In this period Prof. Madeira is visiting University of Florence, where he is also holding a set of seminars on "Design of experiments for resilience assessment and benchmarking". The goal is to use real data from concrete resilience/dependability assessment experiments, particularly raw data from fault injection experiments, to provide a comprehensive set of examples on how to design and perform correct experiments. The course is covering basic concepts on fault injection for dependability and resilience assessment, steps of designing an experiment, how to perform correct measurements, and hypothesis testing.

On December 11th, Alexandre Esper had a seminar at RCL last Thursday, entitled "Mixed-Criticality Systems: A Review".

Alexandre works at Critical Software in Portugal, and he has been visiting CINI - Firenze for two weeks, as part of the CECRIS project.

Mário Rui had a seminar at RCL last Thursday, entitled "Towards cyber-security challenges in Smart Grids and viable solutions".

Mário works at Critical Software in Portugal, and he is currently visiting CINI - Firenze for two months, as part of the CECRIS project. Further information, as well as a pdf version of the slides presented at the talk, is available on the CECRIS website.