The fourth annual CPS PI Meeting will be held Thursday and Friday, October 17-18, 2013 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in the Crystal City section of Arlington, Virginia near the Crystal City Metro and Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

As with prior summits, the event was invite-only, but inclusive of the NSF CI community, free-to-attend, and targeted at those with leadership, management, and security responsibilities in NSF CI and MREFC projects. Additionally, we included key members of the research community (to better disseminate NSF CI cybersecurity needs and foster transition of their research to practice through CI projects), as well as selected invitees from outside the NSF community.

Distributed Embedded Systems (DES) are rapidly becoming increasingly complex due to requirements on advanced functionality, with increasing amount and heterogeneity of the information that is exchanged. This high complexity imposes major development challenges when non-functional properties must be enforced, such as real-time response and adaptability.