Abstract: The use of robots in society could be expanded by using reinforcement learning (RL) to allow robots to learn and adapt to new situations on-line. RL is a paradigm for learning sequential decision making tasks, usually formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). For an RL algorithm to be practical for robotic control tasks, it must learn in very few samples, while continually taking actions in real-time. In addition, the algorithm must learn efficiently in the face of noise, sensor/actuator delays, and continuous state features.

Abstract: Securing critical networked cyber-physical systems (NCPSs) such as the power grid or transportation systems has emerged as a major national and global priority. The networked nature of such systems renders them vulnerable to a range of attacks both in cyber and physical domains as corroborated by recent threats such as the Stuxnet virus.

Abstract: The goal of this research project is to create a scalable and robust cyber-physical system (CPS) framework for the observation and control of the functional interdependencies between bridge structures (stationary physical systems) and trucks, vehicles and human inspectors (mobile physical agents). Figure 1 shows the SHM-based CPS framework that is built around demonstration highway bridges with permanent wireless bridge monitoring system installed. 

International Workshop on Early Reliability Modeling for Aging and Variability in Silicon Systems  (ERMAVSS) Dresden, Germany (co-located with DATE) | Friday March 18th,  2016 | http://ermavss.iroctech.com/ About the Workshop

14th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN 2016) PRESENTATION The Real-Time Networks (RTN) is a satellite workshop of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2016), the premier European venue for presenting research into the broad area of real-time and embedded systems. The RTN 2016 workshop is the fourteenth in the series of workshops that started at the 2002 ECRTS conference. No edition took however place in 2015.

The 4th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) Non-Volatile memory (NVM) technologies have demonstrated great potentials on improving many aspects of present and future memory hierarchy, offering high integration density, larger capacity, zero standby power and good resilience to soft errors. The recent research progress of various NVMs, e.g., NAND flash, PCM, STT-RAM, RRAM, FeRAM, etc., have drawn tremendous attentions from both academy and industry.

The 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR2016) The 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory will take place in Québec City, Canada, 23-26 August 2016. The event will be co-located with the 13th QEST International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) and the 14th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS).