The NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office and the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel are pleased to announce the AVT-407 Research Workshop on 

"System Qualification and Certification by Analysis"

to be held in Riga, LATVIA

tbd October 2025

(In conjunction with the 56^th AVT Panel Business Week, date tbd October 2025)

The event is open to citizens from NATO Nations, Australia and Japan

Theme:

 The scope of the workshop is broad, covering the use of modelling and simulation to support qualification and certification of land-, air- and sea-based systems. It encompasses all engineering disciplines across the full system lifecycle. The programme committee particularly seeks contributions addressing the following four key thematic areas:

• The development and use of modelling and simulation capabilities in the context of system qualification and certification.
• Model assurance. Tools, methods and processes for establishing stakeholder confidence and credibility in model predictions and the use of model predictions for high-consequence decision making.
• Simulation management, governance and regulation.
• Education and Training.

The main objectives of the Research Workshop are:

• To provide an opportunity to gather together experts, specialists and interested stakeholders with an interest in system qualification and certification by analysis;
• To provide a forum to share existing knowledge and practice;
• To identify and prioritize remaining challenges that require further research and development.

Topics to be covered:

Papers are invited in the areas of:

Modelling and simulation capabilities in the context of system qualification and certification:

• physics based models
• data based models
• coupling of Physics and data-based models
• machine learning and artificial intelligence
• digital twins
• model based engineering
• model based systems engineering
• use of physical test data in modelling and simulation
• coupling of physical test and computational modeling
• use of in-service data
• digital thread and digital fabric
• risk and rare even prediction

Model assurance:

• model credibility assurance
• verification and validation
• uncertainty quantification

Simulation governance:

• simulation process and data management
• model and simulation management and governance
• regulatory policy

And education, development and certification of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.

All details about deadlines and the abstract submission are provided in the document "AVT-407-RWS-CfP" on the right side below the map.

NOTE: Deadline for submission of abstracts is 02 March 2025