Large disasters may ripple across cities, regions or even nationally through interconnected critical infrastructure systems. Right now, many of those connections are invisible, making it very difficult to put effective mitigation strategies in place. Critical links are often uncovered too late, causing greater impacts to infrastructure and challenging recovery efforts on the ground. Join us for the Resilience Week 2019 Symposium to discuss how private and public partners can work together to ensure a secure and reliable flow of energy across the nation. 
Craig Rieger Submitted by Craig Rieger on April 13th, 2019
Most critical infrastructures have evolved into complex systems comprising large numbers of interacting elements. These interactions result in the spread of disruptions, such as delays, from one part of the system to another, and even from one infrastructure to another. Effective tools for the analysis and control of real-world infrastructures need to account for the underlying dynamics. The key insight in this research is that by learning data-driven models of infrastructure networks, and using these models to determine dynamics-aware recovery algorithms, we can greatly improve the resilience of critical infrastructure networks. We propose to address these challenges by: 1. Learning and validating scalable representations of real systems from data. By considering continuous states, and by modeling the time-varying nature of connectivity as switching between network topologies, we propose to obtain a class of switched linear system models. Multilayer network models will be developed to account for airline networks, and multimodal systems. 2. Characterizing resilience, both for the system as a whole, and in terms of individual nodes (e.g., susceptibility to network delays). The metrics to evaluate resilience will encompass both steady-state and transient behavior. 3. Using the identified models to design optimal control algorithms that can enable recovery from disruptions, taking into account network dynamics, the uncertainty in operating environments, and the costs of decisions to restore service at various levels, at various times. The results of the research will be validated using operational data, thereby yielding a set of tools for system diagnostics, analysis, and recovery. Improving and maintaining critical infrastructures are among the grand challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering. The proposed research will develop techniques grounded in network science, machine learning, and systems and control theory in order to effectively design and operate infrastructures. The development of common frameworks and abstractions for these infrastructures will enable the study of their interdependencies. With the rapid growth of intelligent infrastructures, the proposed research will benefit society, and also help attract and train the next generation of engineering professionals.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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National Science Foundation
Hamsa Balakrishnan Submitted by Hamsa Balakrishnan on October 3rd, 2017
This session of the SAE 2013 World Congress focuses on processes, methods, and tools for the design, analysis, and synthesis of cyber secure automotive embedded systems. The analysis aspect shall cover static code analysis methods and tools for analyzing the vulnerabilities of embedded software (application and platform) prior to their deployment on the target HW.
Submitted by Anonymous on March 4th, 2013
Workshop on Open Resilient human-aware Cyber-physical Systems (WORCS-2012) http://conf.laas.fr/WORCS12 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Monday June 25, 2012 , Boston, USA In conjunction with the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (www.dsn.org) IMPORTANT DATES
Submitted by Mohamed Kaaniche on April 16th, 2012
The major purpose of this symposium is to extend and endorse particular concepts that will generate novel research and codify resilience in next generation control system designs.
Craig Rieger Submitted by Craig Rieger on April 16th, 2012
This session of the SAE 2012 World Congress focuses on processes, methods, and tools for the design, analysis, and synthesis of cyber secure automotive embedded systems. The analysis aspect shall cover (but not be restricted to) static code analysis methods and tools for analyzing the vulnerabilities of embedded software (application and platform) prior to their deployment on the target HW.
Submitted by Anonymous on April 16th, 2012
Submitted by Anonymous on April 16th, 2012
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