Abstract: Oceans are drivers of global climate; they are home to some of our most important and diverse ecosystems; and they provide a substantial amount to the world’s economy as a major source of food and employment. Sound plays a vital role in the ocean ecosystem, as many organisms rely on the acoustic environment for navigation, communication, detecting predators and finding food.

Abstract: The aim of this project is to lay down the foundations of a novel approach to real-time control of networked cyber-physical systems (CPS) that leverages their cooperative  nature. Most networked controllers  are not implementable over embedded digital computer systems because they rely on continuous time or synchronous executions that are costly to enforce.

Abstract: Central to the operation of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is accurate and reliable knowledge of time, both for meaningfully sensing and controlling the physical world state and for correct, high-performance and energy-efficient orchestration of computing and communication operations. Emerging applications that seek to control agile physical processes or depend on precise knowledge of time to infer location and coordinate communication, make use of time with diverse semantics and dynamic quality requirements.

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