Workshop Position Papers on Cyber-Physical Systems

Position Paper Categories

• Smart Transportation and Aviation
• Tele-Physical Services
• Critical Physical Infrastructures
• System Infrastructure
• Scientific Foundations and Theory

Smart Transportation and Aviation

• “Autonomous Driving in Goods Transport”, Dieter Zöbel.
• “Cyber-physical Aerospace: Challenges and Future Directions in Transportation and Exploration Systems”, Ella M. Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
• “Cyber-physical systems and the twenty-first century automobile”, Jeffrey Cook, Ford Motor Company.
• “Future Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems: spatio-temporal computational Environments”, Steve Goddard and Jitender S. Deogun, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
• “Position Paper for NSF Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems”, Tom Fuhrman, General Motors R&D.

Tele-Physical Services (including Health)

• “Building an Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure: A Micro/Macro Health Services Case Study”, Farinaz Koushanfar and Lin Zhong, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University.
• “Cyber-Physical Systems”, Jason Campbell, Seth Goldstein and Todd Mowry.

Critical Physical Infrastructures

• “A Vision for Overcoming the Challenges of Building Cyber-Physical Systems”, Jacob Kornerup (National Instruments).
• “Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering: The Advanced Power Grid”, B. McMillin, C. Gill, M. L. Crow, F. Liu, D. Niehaus, A. Potthast, and D. Tauritz.
• “Cyber-Physical Systems and Wildland Fire or Contaminant Identification and Tracking Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems”, Craig C. Douglas, Robert Lodder, Jan Mandel, and Anthony Vodacek.
• “Sensor-data driven proactive management of infrastructure systems", Prof. Jim Garrett, Prof. Jose' Moura and Matt Sandefilippo (Carnegie Mellon University).
• “Systems Support for Radiational Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking Sensor-cyber Networks”, David K. Y. Yau, Jennifer C. Hou, Shankar Mallikarjun, and Nageswara S. Rao (Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories).

System Infrastructure

• “A Reference Architecture for Building Cyber-Physical Spaces for Independent/Assisted Living”, Jennifer Hou and Lui Sha (UIUC).
• “A Software Architecture for Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems”,  Richard West and Gabriel Parmer (Boston University).
• “CPS Environments”, Roy H Campbell, Guy Garnett and Robert E. McGrath (UIUC).
• “Component-Based Cyber-Physical Systems”, Fei Xie, Portland State University.
• “Managing Information and Storage in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems”, John A. Chandy (University of Connecticut).
• “Information Dispersions in Cyber-Physical Networks: Projective Space Methods”, Nageswara S. Rao, Stephen G. Batsell, Mallikarjun Shankar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory).
• “Innovative Tools Needed for the Design and Test of Cyber-Physical Systems”, Jeannie Falcon and Subramanian Ramamoorthy (National Instruments).
• “Position Paper”, Jay S. Bayne (Meta Command Systems, Inc).
• “Programming Models and Methods for Spatio-Temporal Actions and Reasoning in Cyber-Physical Systems”, Rajesh Gupta (UC San Diego).
• “Robust Communication Networks with Imbedded Security”, Dr. Demetrios Kazakos (Texas Southern University).
• “Secure plug and play architectures for cyber-physical systems”, Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu (Texas A&M University).
• “Smart Cameras and Microphones”, Wayne Wolf and Perry Cook (Princeton University).
• “The Virtual Node Infrastructure Approach to Programming Cyber-Physical Systems”, Nancy Lynch and Calvin Newport (MIT).
• “Towards an Architecture for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems”, Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).
“Towards System Software Platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems”, C. Gill and D. Niehaus.
“Wireless, Self-Organizing Cyber-Physical Systems”, Brian D. Noble and Jason Flinn (University of Michigan).

Scientific Foundations and Theory

• “A Pervasive Approach to Software Validation in Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems”, Matthew B. Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum, Steve Goddard, Gregg Rothermel (University of Nebraska – Lincoln).
• “Building Robust CPS Systems”, Vikram S. Adve and Lui  Sha (UIUC).
• “Component-Based Design and Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems”, John Baras (University of Maryland College Park).
• “Cyber-Physical Systems - Are Computing Foundations Adequate?”, Edward A. Lee (University of California at Berkeley).
• “Cyber-Physical Systems: Position Paper”, Paulo Tabuada (University of California at Los Angeles).
• “Cyber-Physical Systems: The Semantic Challenge”, Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University).
• “Design and Verification of Pervasive Sensor-Actuator Systems”, Albert M. K. Cheng and Rong Zheng (University of Houston).
• “Information and control: a bridge between the physical and decision layers”, Munther Dahleh, Emilio Frazzoli, Alexandre Megretski, Sanjoy Mitter, Asuman Ozdaglar, Pablo Parrilo, Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
• “Model-Centric Cyber-Physical Computing”, Robert Cartwright, Kevin Kelly, Farinaz Koushanfar, Walid Taha (Rice University).
• “Modeling Temporal Behavior in Complex Cyber-Physical Systems: Position Paper”, Alan Burns (University of York).
• “Multi-Disciplinary Challenges and Directions in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems”, Michael S. Branicky, M. Cenk Cavu¸so˘glu, Vincenzo Liberatore (Case Western University).
“Synthesis, Verification, and Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems”, Albert M. K. Cheng (University of Houston).
“Towards Safe and Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems”, Azer Bestavros (Boston University).