The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is sponsoring a workshop on March 13-14, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois to identify crosscutting technical barriers and knowledge gaps limiting

RTAS 2012 focuses on original systems and applications, case studies, methodologies and applied algorithms that contribute to the state of practice in the broad field of embedded and open real-time systems and computing. The scope of RTAS 2012 will consist of four tracks: Applications, Systems, RTOSs and Tools, Applied Methodologies and Foundations, Hardware/Software Integration and Co-design, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

IPSN is a leading, single-track, annual forum on sensor network research. IPSN brings together researchers from academia and practitioners from industry to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal processing, embedded systems design, information theory, networking and protocols, systems architecture, distributed algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and databases and information management.

The CPSWeek brings together five leading conferences - HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, HiCoNS, and RTAS

Embedded Systems Week is an exciting event which brings together conferences, tutorials, and workshops centered on various aspects of embedded systems research and development. Three leading conferences in the area - CASES, CODES+ISSS, and EMSOFT - will take place at the same time and location, allowing attendees to benefit from a wide range of topics covered by these conferences and their associated tutorials and workshops.

The development of embedded systems with real-time and other critical constraints raises distinctive problems. In particular, development teams have to make very specific architectural choices and handle key non-functional constraints related to, for example, real-time deadlines and to platform parameters like energy consumption or memory footprint.

Multi-Paradigm Modelling (MPM) is a research field focused on solving the challenge of combining, coupling, and integrating rigorous models of some reality, at different levels of abstraction and views, using adequate modelling formalisms and semantic domains, with the goal to simulate (for optimization) or realize systems that may be physical, software or a combination of both. The key challenges are finding adequate Model Abstractions, Multi-formalism modelling, Model Transformation and the application of MPM techniques and tools to Complex Systems.

The conference  covers all aspects of model-based development for software and systems engineering, including modeling languages, methods, tools, and their applications.

The goal of the Analytic Virtual Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (AVICPS) workshop is to explore architecture design patterns, tools and the theoretical analytical foundations for creating common system-wide composition models where key properties can be studied and guarantees provided before the start of actual development. Of particular interest are the case studies on the challenges of expressing the properties of the final product in terms of component properties and the architecture that governs their interactions. Both solutions and/or open problems are welcome.

  Special Interest Group: CPS Foundations and Architectures II Discussion Lead: TBD