Invitation to workshop on ”Resilience Engineering” in Vadstena, Sweden 25-27 June, 2007
http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/REW07/

News
12/6 2007: The workshop is now fully booked. We look forward to meeting you all in Vadstena!
28/5 2007: We are pleased to present the workshop agenda.
14/5 2007: Travel instructions online (see below).
2/4 2007: Extended deadlines! Submissions (23/4), Early registration (2/5). New submission category: Description of a safety-critical system.
14/3 2007: The registration form is now online
Background
Resilience Engineering is a new approach to safety and risk management. Whereas conventional approaches to system safety are dominated by hindsight and emphasise error tabulation and probabilistic risk analysis, Resilience Engineering emphasizes an organisation's ability to adjust its functioning, prior to or following changes and disturbances, so that it can sustain operations even after a major mishap or in the presence of continuous stress.

A common description of resilient systems is that such a system must have the following three abilities:
• The ability to respond, quickly and efficiently, to regular disturbances and threats.
• The ability continuously to monitor for irregular disturbances and threats, and to revise the basis for the monitoring when needed.
• The ability to anticipate future changes in the environment that may affect the system’s ability to function, and the willingness to prepare against these changes even if the outcome is uncertain.

Resilience engineering provides the methods by which a system’s resilience can be gauged or measured, and the means by which a system’s resilience can be improved. Resilience has previously proven to be a useful construct in analyzing the persistence, stability and flexibility of ecological systems, for many decades.

Purpose
The Resilience Engineering workshop is organised by the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at the Department for Computer and Information Science, Linköping University.

The workshop is an opportunity to discuss Resilience Engineering and its implications for research and practice in safety, risk analysis and accident analysis. Practitioners interested in these fields of research are also encouraged to participate in the workshop. The intention is to have short presentations followed by longer discussions, as the purpose of the workshop is to exchange and elaborate ideas, rather than to present recent findings only.

Workshop Agenda

	Monday
1100-1130	Registration
1130-1200	Registration
1200-1230	Lunch
1230-1300	Lunch
	Keynote Session
1300-1330	Welcome and introduction
1330-1400	Keynote Sidney Dekker
1400-1430	Keynote Sidney Dekker
1430-1500	Coffee
	Theme: Resilience in Aviation
1500-1530	Barriers to regulating resilience: Example of Pilots’ Crew Resource Management training - Dehvargent, Stephane
1530-1600	Discussion
1600-1630	Contribution of resilience to the analysis of flight - Nouvel, David
1630-1700	Discussion
1800	Welcom Reception
	Tuesday
0900-0930	Summary of Monday
	Theme: Design and Resilience
0930-1000	Resilience in Usability Consultancy Practice - Furniss, Dominique
1000-1030	Discussion
1030-1100	Coffee
1100-1130	Cognitive Resilience: Reflection-in-action and on-action- Back et al.
1130-1200	Discussion
1200-1230	Lunch
1230-1300	Lunch
	Keynote Session
1300-1330	Keynote Erik Hollnagel
1330-1400	Keynote Erik Hollnagel
1400-1430	Discussion
1430-1500	Coffee
	Theme: Resilience Theory
1500-1530	Trials and tribulations: the building of a resilient organization - Skriver Jan
1530-1600	Discussion
1600-1630	Cybernetics and Resilience Engineering - Dijkstra, Arthur
1630-1700	Discussion
1900	Workshop dinner
	Wednesday
0900-0930	Summary of Tuesday
	Theme: Pragmatic Resilience
0930-1000	Pragmatic Resilience - Lundberg & Johansson
1000-1030	Discussion
1030-1100	Coffee
1100-1130	Final Discussion - Wrap up
1130-1200	Final Discussion - Wrap up
1200-1230	Lunch
1230-1300	Lunch
1300-1330	Departure

Invited Speakers
Professor Erik Hollnagel, Linköpings Universitet and Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Professor Sidney Dekker, Lunds Universitet

Submissions
Since the main focus of the workshop is to have interesting discussions, a limited number of submissions will be accepted for presentation. Submissions should be formatted in accordance with the template which can be found here. Submissions are limited to five pages, including references. Submissions should be sent to bjojo@ida.liu.se .

Contributions covering one or more of the following topics are welcome, although other topics connected to Resilience will be considered:

• How to model Resilience and Resilient action(s), in different types of systems (organisations, teams, man-machine systems etc.)
• The connection between Resilience and learning from accidents
• Case studies of resilient systems, but also of systems lacking resilience.
• (new) Description of a safety-critical system, and challenges it presents to resilience engineering.
• Resilience and design – case studies and methods for designing resilient systems.
• Conceptual papers discussing the meaning, applicability and purpose of Resilience Engineering in different areas.

Important Dates
All submissions must be received by the 23/4-2007 (extended from 31/3).
Authors will be notified of acceptance by the 30/4-2007.
Registration deadline, early registration fee, 2/5-2007.
Registration deadline, late registration fee, 25/5-2007.
Final versions of the contributions must be sent in no later than the 15/5-2007.

Organizers
The workshop is organized by the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at the Department for Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet.
Please do not hesitate to contact any of the following members of the local organizing committee if you have any questions:

Björn Johansson, bjojo@ida.liu.se
Jonas Lundberg, jonlu@ida.liu.se
Rogier Woltjer, rogwo@ida.liu.se

Registration
The workshop is now fully booked!

Early registration is due on the 2/5-2007. Late registration is due on 25/5.

The registration fee is 3500 SEK (4000 SEK incl vat) (approx 385 Euros) (before 2/5) including participation in the workshop, proceedings, accommodation on the 25-27/6-2007, lunch and breakfast, a welcome reception in the evening of day one and a dinner on day two. Late registration (between 3/5 and 24/5) is 4000 SEK (4500 incl vat).

Accommodation
The workshop will be held at the Klosterhotellet, part of the Vadstena Monastery, beautifully located by lake Vättern. The hotel is well known for its food and its excellent wine cellar. The medieval buildings in which the hotel is located was once a catholic monastery of the Brigittine order.

The hotel is within walking distance of Vadstena Castle, the residence of 16th century King Gustav Wasa. Vadstena blooms in summer, and the restaurants and pubs offer many opportunities of a nice meal or a drink. For more information about Vadstena, follow this link.

Travel instructions
Vadstena has no airport. Therefore, you can fly directly to Linköping (neighbour city) and continue from Linköping with bus, or fly to Stockholm, take the train to Linköping or Mjölby, and continue to Vadstena with bus. Rental, or own, car is naturally an option (see below).

Flying
The easiest solution is to fly directly to Linköping, but you may also fly to Stockholm or Copenhagen and continue by train (see below). That option is probably cheaper.

Bus
An online journey planner for busses in the region around Vadstena is available at Östgötatrafikens homepage.
(http://www.ostgotatrafiken.se/templates/PWPage____5519.aspx)

Train
If you arrive in Stockholm or Copenhagen, the most convenient way of going to Linköping is to take the train. You can find travel times and buy tickets online on the Swedish Railroads homepage.
(http://www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=10&l=en)

Car
General: Driving in Sweden and Scandinavia in general is relaxed compared to middle Europe. There are few traffic jams and cities and villages are often far apart, meaning that the average speed of a long trip can be comparatively high. Do however remember that Swedish laws regarding speed limits are tough, and fines for speeding are comparatively high.

From Stockholm Arlanda Airport: Follow highway E4 south towards “Helsingborg”. After about 250 km, follow signs to Vadstena Skänninge. The drive should take around 3-3,5 hours depending on the traffic situation.

From Linköping: Depart from Linköping on highway E4 south towards “Helsingborg”. After about 18 km, follow sings to Vadstena Skänninge. The drive should take around 45 minutes.

Coming from the south of Sweden: There are several options, but the easiest way is to follow E4 north towards Stockholm and then follow the signs towards Vadstena Skänninge in Mjölby. If you depart from Copenhagen or Malmö, you will need around 5 hours.

Conference arrangement
From some locations near Vadstena, the bus connections to Vadstena are not so well aligned with the trains. MZ Travel, our conference booking agent, has agreed to check with all participants whether there is any need for a common transportation arrangement from any of these points.