The Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2014 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing and is hosted by Seoul National University, Kyungpook National University, Soongsil University, and Dongguk University. The SRC Program is sponsored by Microsoft Research. 

TSOS 2013 4th Workshop on Trustworthy Self-Organizing and Autonomous Systems September 9, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA http://tsos.isse.de Affiliated to SASO 2013 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Aim of the Workshop

  Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Philadelphia, USA; September 9-13, 2013   The 2013 edition of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference (SASO) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, and hosted by Drexel University, in the week of September 9-13, 2013.

 

The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is seeking informed views of the opportunities and challenges to the development, deployment, operation and use of increased automation of the surface transportation system, including vehicles, drivers, users, road-based infrastructure, information systems and applications for the purpose of developing a U.S. DOT multimodal research plan for automation.

This is an area of great interest to the public, which may have significant impacts on many societal issues such as driving safety, personal mobility, energy consumption, operating efficiency, environmental impact, and land use. The focus for this RFI is to learn the views of government, industry, academia, and the American public with regard to:

• Roles of local, state, and federal governments in policy formation
• Technical challenges
• Human factors issues
• Institutional issues
• Legal issues associated with increased automation

Input to this RFI will assist the U.S. DOT to:

• Identify, categorize, and prioritize key research challenges
• Identify and begin quantifying anticipated societal costs and benefits
• Learn about current and planned research activities among private and public research groups
• Gain insight into commercial trends and market developments
• Understand opportunities that may be created for public-private partnerships and financing
• Organize the U.S. DOT research plan temporally, according to near-, mid-, and long-term priorities that reflect the time-sensitive aspects of evolving automation capabilities and market demands
• Identify appropriate areas for policy formation that can help to accelerate beneficial developments, reduce or eliminate public exposure to risk, and reduce the development and operation costs associated with automation

The RFI can be found on FedBizOps and here:  https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOT/RITA/VNTSC/DTRT57-13-S-PNOTC/listing.html.  Responses are due by 12:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday 23 April 2013, and shall be sent electronically to the Contracting Specialist, Michael Rigby, michael.rigby@dot.gov.  The USDOT extended the deadline for responses to the automation RFI until Tuesday 23 April at 12 noon.  https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOT/RITA/VNTSC/DTRT57-13-S-PNOTC/listing.html.  

Many responses and questions have already been received.  One of the questions that has been raised merits direct response:  You do not need to respond to all of the RFI questions.  You may respond to as many (or as few) of the questions as you want.  Your response can be as long or as short as you choose.  And, if there is an issue or area that you think is germane to the issue, but the RFI doesn’t directly ask the question you have in mind, please write to that issue.

 

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held in conjunction with the RTCSA 2013 http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/rtalgo/Events/RETIMICS

Special Session on Ensuring Safety in Industrial Critical Systems (ESICS)

ECYPS’2013 - the EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems will be held in the scope of MECO’2013 - the 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing and SS_on_ECYPS’2013 - the 2013 Summer School on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, June 16-20

The 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO 2013) is a continuation of very successful MECO-2012 event. It is an International Scientific Forum aimed to present and discuss the leading achievements in the modeling, analysis, design, validation and application of embedded computing systems. MECO 2013 will provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss new applications, design problems, ideas, solutions, research and development results, experiences and work-in-progress in this important technological area.