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NSF Workshop On Cyber-Physical Systems
Research Motivation, Techniques and Roadmap
Cyber-physical systems will transform how we interact with the physical world just like the Internet transformed how we interact with one another.
Call for Position Papers
This call for position papers invites you to submit a position paper for an NSF-sponsored workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This research initiative seeks new scientific foundations and technologies to enable the rapid and reliable development and integration of computer- and information-centric physical and engineered systems. The goal of the initiative is to usher in a new generation of engineered systems that are highly dependable, efficiently produced, and capable of advanced performance in information, computation, communication, and control.
Applications for cyber-physical systems can be found in health care (assisted living, bionics, wearable devices, …), transportation and automotive networks, aerospace and avionics, automated manufacturing, blackout-free electricity generation and distribution, optimization of energy consumption, critical infrastructure monitoring, disaster response, efficient agriculture, environmental science, and personal fitness. Manipulation of the physical world occurs locally but control and observability are enabled safely and securely across a virtual network. This capability is referred to as “Globally Virtual, Locally Physical”.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an open forum for leaders and visionaries from industry, research laboratories, academia, and government to develop an attractive roadmap for the development and deployment of cyber-physical systems. A cyber-physical system integrates computing, communication and storage capabilities with the monitoring and/or control of entities in the physical world, and must do so dependably, safely, securely, efficiently and in real-time.
The workshop format will be discussion-oriented with specific goals to
(a) clearly enumerate the fundamental limitations of today’s cyber-physical systems,
(b) determine new cyber-physical applications and advances that can produce significant societal and economic impact,
(c) understand the core technical challenges that must be addressed to enable future cyber-physical systems,
(d) establish an overall architectural framework for cyber-physical systems, and
(e) identify new innovations and powerful cross-layer abstractions that will satisfy the challenging requirements of future cyber-physical systems.
Through this Call for Position Papers, we solicit input that can be used by the CPS Coordinating Group to help identify grand challenges, research needs, technical challenges, and a roadmap for Cyber-Physical Systems. The organizers will deliver a report to the National Science Foundation that summarizes the workshop’s findings. By submitting a position paper, you will have an opportunity to provide technical facts and information that potentially can help shape the future direction of CPS.
Due to the workshop’s
ambitious schedule, position papers are requested by
Workshop Focus
Cyber-physical systems must be dependable, secure, safe, efficient and operate in real-time. They must also be scalable, cost-effective and adaptive. In other words, the requirements that cyber-physical systems must satisfy are relatively well-understood. A goal of this workshop is to focus on promising solutions (methodologies, techniques and approaches) to satisfy these requirements. The primary emphasis of the workshop is on innovations in observation and manipulation of the physical world, novel integration of sensors and actuators with computing and communications hardware capabilities, a scalable and reliable software infrastructure tailored to the needs of cyber-physical systems, application domain-specific advances in control/hybrid systems and signal processing that enable end-to-end operation, and the design and development of high-impact applications. In particular, abstractions and techniques that span multiple layers (including the physical world) are of special interest. A reference architecture that can support a range of cyber-physical systems is also of interest. A secondary objective is to propose core elements of a new lexicon to precisely capture the new thinking underlying the novel scope of cyber-physical systems.
In summary, topics of interest include
- Grand Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Requirements of Cyber-Physical Systems
- Architectures for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Technical Challenges to interface and manipulate the Physical World
- Innovations, Ideas, Abstractions and Terminology for Cyber-Physical Systems
Background
To plan for this Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, a two-day CPS Planning Meeting was held on July 27 and 28, 2006 in Arlington, Virginia. This planning meeting was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Thirty experts participated in the planning meeting including those in government, industry, research labs and academia. (Please see http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/CPS/Planning-Meeting/).The topics listed above were identified at the planning meeting.
The target of this CPS workshop is to build on the work accomplished at the CPS Planning meeting by further analyzing the challenges and approaches that can help address the findings resulting from this meeting, as well as identifying additional challenges and approaches from other communities.
Our goal is to have a complete mix of the relevant stakeholders (including researchers, developers, and users) who can help identify emerging systems and assurance needs. The workshop will result in a comprehensive research needs report that will prioritize recommendations with a roadmap to determine what, when, and how these priorities should be addressed over an identified time frame. The generation of the summary and roadmap report is preceded by this call for position papers to assist in identifying the topics, speakers, and report writers for the workshop.
Workshop Attendance
Workshop attendance is by
invitation. Anyone interested in participating in the workshop is encouraged to
submit a position paper on the several topics outlined above by
Government representatives interested in being invited to attend as observers are asked to submit a brief biography with a few sentences describing your past or current interests in CPS.
Submission Guidelines for Position Papers
Position papers should be at
most three pages in length and printed in a 12-point font on 8-1/2 by11 inch
paper. Each position paper should address
- What are the three fundamental limitations of today’s cyber-physical systems?
- What are the three most important research challenges?
- What are promising innovations and abstractions for future cyber-physical systems?
- What are possible milestones for the next 5 to10 years?
In addition, each position paper should include at most a half-page bio, organization/affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number for each author. The bios are included in the 3-page limit.
Position papers should be
addressed to the attention of the CPS Workshop Program Committee and submitted
by e-mail to raj@ece.cmu.edu by Friday,
September 8 15, 2006 with the Subject
line “CPS Workshop Submission”.
Please note that submitted position papers will be available on-line and authors are advised not to include any proprietary information that they do not like to be disseminated to the public.
Important Dates
Venue
The workshop will be held in
Information
The workshop Web site http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/cps/ provides up-to-date information. For more information or if you wish to be put on the workshop mailing list, please contact the workshop organizers at raj@ece.cmu.edu.
