Abstract: Scientific challenges: How can multiple cooperative cyber-physical systems communicate and coordinate to accomplish complex high-level tasks within unknown, dynamic and adversarial environments?

Overview: The existence of complex interactions and interdependencies in cyber-physical critical infrastructures is well known, but a poorly understood phenomena. As an example, a smart grid (SG) is dependent on the cyber infrastructure for advanced metering, data collection/analytics and control, and this dependency brings in serious security and vulnerability implications.

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 Energetic Bear virus.

Abstract: We  developed  an  analytical  and  computational  framework  for  vulnerability analysis of dynamical power networks to link and node-based attacks.   For stochastic link failure attacks, we provided a systematic procedure for ranking links  (transmission  lines)  of  power  network  in  the  order  of  their  critical importance to maintain synchronization among network generators.

IEEE International Workshop on Cloud-integrated Cyber Physical Systems 2014 (IEEE Cloud-CPS 2014) in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2014, December 15 - 18, 2014, Singapore   Overview:

Cyber Physical Systems: From Theory to Practice http://www.crcpress.com/