DARS 2018 is the 3rd in an international workshop series dedicated to the design and analysis of robust systems. Robustness refers to the ability of a system to behave reliably in the presence of perturbation, either in the system parameters or irregularities in the system's operating environment. This is particularly important in the context of embedded systems that interact with a physical environment through sensors and actuators, and communicate over wired or wireless networks. Such systems are routinely subject to deviations arising from sensor or actuation noise, quantization and sampling of data, uncertainty in the physical environment, and delays or packet drops over unreliable network channels. When deployed in safety critical applications, system robustness in the presence of uncertainty is not just desirable, but crucial.
The goal of DARS is to foster dialogue and exchange of ideas and techniques across several disciplines with an interest in robustness such as formal verification, programming languages, fault-tolerance, control theory and hybrid systems.
Domains of interest include, but are not limited to: reactive, timed, hybrid or probabilistic systems and programs, approximate computing, fault tolerance of distributed systems, and robustness of neural networks.