The terms denote technology areas that are part of the CPS technology suite or that are impacted by CPS requirements.
Event
ICCPS 2016
7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2016) held as part of CPS Week 2016 to be held in Vienna, Austria, from 11 to 14 April 2016.
Submitted by Anonymous on September 18th, 2015
Announcement
Call for Workshops at ANT-2016

Call for Workshops Proposals

The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016)

Madrid, Spain | May 23-26, 2016 |  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#workshop

Important Date

  • Workshop Proposal Due: October 5, 2015

ANT-2016 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2016 and its related areas.

Proceedings

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2016 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2016 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.

Proposal Format

  • Title of the workshop
  • Workshop Website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable)
  • Full contact of workshop organizer(s)
  • Expected number of paper submissions
  • Draft Call for papers of the workshop
  • Tentative list of TPC members

Financial Assistance
To appreciate your hard work and support, the registration fees for one organizer of each workshop will be waived for workshops with more than eight registered papers. Please refer to (Important Dates) for the deadline for proposals.

Workshops Chair
Dr. Stephane Galland, UTBM, France (Email: stephane.galland@utbm.fr)

General Announcement
Not in Slideshow
Submitted by Anonymous on September 18th, 2015
Event
TMCE 2016
Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering Symposium About TMCE The about pages gives you general information about the TMCE Symposia series. If you are looking for information about the current Symposium, please visit the '2014 Welcome' page. More information on past TMCE Symposia is available by selecting the appropriate year. Should you be interested in sponsoring opportunities, read the appropriate section of the website or contact the organizing committee. Mission of the TMCE Symposium Series
Amy Karns Submitted by Amy Karns on September 18th, 2015
Event
ICCAD 2015
2015 International Conference On Computer Aided Design The Premier Conference Devoted to Technical Innovations in Electronic Design Automation Doubletree Hotel Austin, TX TECHNICAL PROGRAM LIVE ICCAD is the premier forum to explore emerging technology challenges, present cutting-edge R&D solutions, record theoretical and empirical advances, and identify future roadmaps for design automation. 
Submitted by Anonymous on September 14th, 2015
Announcement
Call for Book Chapters: Security and Privacy in CPS (Wiley)

Dear Colleague,

We would like to cordially invite you to contribute a book chapter to a forthcoming book entitled " Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations and Applications", which will be published by Wiley (https://sites.google.com/site/wileycpsspbook/).

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components. Advances in CPS will enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that will far exceed the simple embedded systems of today. CPS are subject to threats stemming from increasing reliance on computer and communication technologies. Security threats exploit the increased complexity and connectivity of critical infrastructure systems, placing the Nation’s security, economy, public safety, and health at risk. CPS blur the lines between infrastructural and personal spaces when they provide convenient access to public services or bridge the gap between personal property and public infrastructure. This blurring is being engineered into the Internet of Things (IoT), an important exponent of CPS. With IoT, personal CPS (like phones, appliances, and automobiles) bearing personal data can reach up into public infrastructures to access services. This connectivity can result in leakage of personal data with attendant privacy concerns. 

    The purpose of the book is to refine an understanding of the key technical, social and legal issues at stake, to understand the range of technical issues affecting hardware and software in infrastructure components, as well as the blending of such systems with personal CPS. This book will present the state of the art and the state of the practice of how to address the following unique security and privacy challenges facing CPS.


Call for Book Chapter Proposals
Chapter Proposal Submission by September 27, 2015.

Submission Procedure:
Please email your abstract (max. 500 words) by September 27, 2015 to cps.wiley@gmail.com.

Tentative Table of Contents – additions to the topics listed below are much welcome!

 

Part I: Foundations and Principles

Chapter 1. Cybersecurity and Privacy: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 2. The interplay of Cyber, Physical, and Human elements in CPS

Chapter 3. Adaptive attack mitigation for CPS

Chapter 4. Authentication and access control for CPS

Chapter 5. Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS

Chapter 6. Data security and privacy for CPS

Chapter 7. Intrusion detection for CPS

Chapter 8. Key management in CPS

Chapter 9. Legacy CPS system protection

Chapter 10. Lightweight crypto and security

Chapter 11. Threat modeling for CPS

Chapter 12. Vulnerability analysis for CPS

 

Part II: Application Domains 

Chapter 13.            Energy

Chapter 14.            Medical

Chapter 15.            Transportation

Chapter 16.            Physical Infrastructure

Chapter 17.            Manufacturing

Chapter 18.            Building

Chapter 19.            Agriculture

Chapter 20.            Robotics

Chapter 21.            Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Chapter 22.            Smart Cities


Please provide the following points in your proposals/abstracts:
1. Title of the contribution,
2. Title of the chapter (of the tentative TOC) if the contribution refers to one of them,
3. Name of author, co-authors, institution, email-address,
4. Content/mission of the proposed article.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by the given deadline about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.

Full Book Chapter:
Complete chapters are required to be submitted to cps.wiley@gmail.com. Author could use LaTex or any word processing tools (MS Word, OpenDocument, etc.) while preparing the chapters. A book chapter is required to be 18 to 25 pages (8,000 to 10,000 words).

Please provide the following points in your contribution:
1. Chapter title
2. Author information (of all authors: title, first name, last name, organization, address, city, zip code, country, email address)
3. Abstract
4. 5-10 keywords
5. Text body
6. Bibliography

Important Dates:

·         Chapter Proposal Submission by: September 27, 2015

·         Author Notification by: October 11, 2015

·         Full Chapter Submission by: November 30, 2015

·         Review Results Returned by: December 31, 2015

·         Final Chapter Submission by: February 15, 2016

·         Anticipated Publication Date: Summer, 2016 

Editors:

Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA. <Houbing.Song@mail.wvu.edu>

Glenn A. Fink, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. <Glenn.Fink@pnnl.gov>

Gilad L. Rosner, Internet of Things Privacy Forum, UK. <gilad@giladrosner.com>

Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. <sabina.jeschke@ima-zlw-ifu.rwth-aachen.de>

General Announcement
Not in Slideshow
Houbing Song Submitted by Houbing Song on September 11th, 2015
Event
CPS Week 2008
Katie Dey Submitted by Katie Dey on August 28th, 2015
Event
CPS Week 2009
Katie Dey Submitted by Katie Dey on August 28th, 2015
Event
CPS Week 2010
Submitted by Anonymous on August 28th, 2015
Project
CPS: Synergy: Provably Safe Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems with Humans-in-the-Loop
This project focuses on the formal design of semi-autonomous automotive Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Rather than disconnecting the driver from the vehicle, the goal is to obtain a vehicle where the degree of autonomy is continuously changed in real-time as a function of certified uncertainty ranges for driver behavior and environment reconstruction. The highly integrated research plan will advance the science and engineering for CPS by developing methods for (1) reconstructing 3D scenes which incorporate high-level topological and low-level metric information, (2) extracting driver behavioral models from large datasets using geometry, reasoning and inferences, (3) designing provably-safe control schemes which trade-off real-time feasibility and conservatism by using the evidence collected during actual driving. Assisting humans in controlling complex and safety-critical systems is a global challenge. In order to improve the safety of human-operated CPS we need to provide guarantees in the reconstruction of the environment where the humans and the CPS operate, and to develop control systems that use predictive cognitive models of the human when interacting with the CPS. A successful and integrated research in both areas will impact not only the automotive sector but many other human-operated systems. These include telesurgery, homeland security, assisted rehabilitation, power networks, environmental monitoring, and all transportation CPS. Graduate, undergraduate and underrepresented engineering students will benefit through classroom instruction, involvement in the research and a continuous interaction with industrial partners who are leaders in the field of assisted driving.
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University of California at Berkeley
Francesco Borrelli
http://www.mpc.berkeley.edu/nsf-cps
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National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1239323&HistoricalAwards=false
Francesco Borrelli
Francesco Borrelli Submitted by Francesco Borrelli on August 27th, 2015
Project
CPS: Breakthrough: Safe Protocols in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
The objective of this research is to prove that cyber-physical systems are safe before they are deployed. The approaches the research investigates are extensions of approaches used to test communications protocols. The problems with cyber-physical systems are that 1) they are much more complicated than communications protocols, 2) time is a more critical component of these systems, and 3) in a competitive environment there are likely to be many implementations that must interoperate. The complexity of communications protocols is reduced by using a layered architecture. Each layer provides a well defined service to the next layer. This research is developing multi-dimensional architectures that reflect the different ways that the cyber-physical system interacts with the physical world. The techniques are evaluated on a driver-assisted merge protocol. An architecture for the merge protocol has four dimensions organized as stacks for communications, external sensors, vehicle monitoring and control, and timing. This architecture will also be useful during standardization. Timing increases verification complexity by increasing the number of potential execution paths. The research conducted in this project explores how to reduce the number of paths by synchronizing clocks and using simultaneous operations. This approach is reasonable because of the timing accuracy now available with GPS. A two step verification process is used that creates an unambiguous model of the cyber-physical system, first proving that the model is safe, then checking that each implementation conforms to the model. This reduces the number and cost of tests for a three-party merge protocol. Specifically, assuming there are N implementation versions for different manufacturers and models, this approach reduces the number of necessary interaction tests, which would be cubic in N, to a single model verification and N conformance tests.
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Columbia University
Nicholas Maxemchuk
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National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1329593&HistoricalAwards=false
Nicholas Maxemchuk
Nicholas Maxemchuk Submitted by Nicholas Maxemchuk on August 27th, 2015
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