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The second workshop with the members of the AMASS EAB (External Advisory Board) was held in Västerås, Sweden, on September 17th, hosted by MDH.

The paper on AMASS work entitled "Preventing Omission of Key Evidence Fallacy in Process-based Argumentations", by Faiz UL Muram, Barbara Gallina, and Laura Gómez Rodríguez (

An assurance case is a collection of auditable claims, arguments, and evidence created to justify that a system or service satisfies its dependability requirements. Assurance cases play a major in the certification of critical systems in most application domains, including those covered in AMASS.

As a part of the dissemination activities of AMASS, an article has been prepared for the Eclipse newsletter of July 2018 to present the toolset that the project is consolidating and developing for assurance and certification of cyber-physical systems.

The AMASS partners are collaborating in the execution of activities for assurance and certification of cyber-physical systems. This includes the study of how different technologies can make the activities more efficient.

The second AMASS project review was held on June 7th, 2018, at ECSEL premises in Brussels.

AMASS has already entered into its last year towards the provision of the European-wide open platform and community for assurance and certification of cyber-physical systems! This post summarises the progress made during the fourth semester of the project, complementing previous posts on e.g.

The AMASS consortium has chosen to build the AMASS Tool Platform around existing open technologies, e.g OpenCert for management of assurance and compliance, and Papyrus and CHESS for system component specificatio

Among the tools that AMASS reuses and exploits for cross- and intra-domain assurance reuse, the BVR tool supports the management of product lines.

The AMASS consortium gathered together in Vienna on March 21st, 22nd and 23rd for the 5th General Meeting of the project. The meeting was hosted by AIT. Forty-six people attended the meeting.