Program

"Holistic Approaches to Cyber-Physical Integration"

Thursday evening - Friday, April 24-25, 2008

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1. Read the CPS Executive Summary available on this website,
2. Review this Agenda, including the Breakout Session Guidelines, and
3. Review the Proposed Outline for the CPS Summit Report to NSF.

Afternoon

• The aim of these discussions is to identify the key points that should appear in the report to NSF to be prepared after the workshop.
• Questions/topics below and the draft outline of the final report are suggestions. Participants should introduce and organize topics as they see fit.
• Think in terms of a 7-9 year NSF initiative.
• Mid-range (3-5 years) and long-term (7-9 year) goals should be identified wherever appropriate.
• Each session should culminate with a prioritization of the key points to be presented as a summary at the plenary reporting sessions.
• Keep notes from the discussion to serve as a resource for preparing the final report.

• Focus on CPS Challenges, barriers, research directions within existing research communities.
• Identify
  • grand challenge problems (15-to-20-year-out visionary applications)
  • top scientific/theoretical challenges
  • top technological challenges

• Focus on CPS challenges, barriers, research directions that cut across boundaries between existing research communities.

• Group 1: Architecture for a CPS research initiative
  • What disciplines and domains should be included in a CPS program?
  • What types of projects will be most effective (emphasis, duration, size, etc.) over the program life cycle?
  • How should interdisciplinary research be encouraged and structured?
  • How should industrial collaboration be encouraged and supported?
  • What on-going participation and dissemination mechanisms are fundamental to a successful CPS program? (workshops, open source, SBIR, …?)

• Group 2: Scientific Foundations of CPS
  • What fundamental questions need to be addressed?
  • What are the new elements needed in a science of CPS?
  • What do we anticipate will be the foundational disciplines?
  • What cross-disciplinary barriers need to fall?
  • What barriers need to be addressed within the foundational disciplines?

• Group 3: Engineering and Technological Foundations of CPS
  • What should the goals and expectations be for developing tool chains for analysis, design, and implementation?
  • What types of testbeds are needed and how should they be developed and supported?
  • What technological substrates and architectures are needed to enable CPS (HW, networking, and SW)?
  • What is required to achieve high-confidence and security technology substrates?
  • What might future CPS certification practice look like?

• Group 4: Broader Impact of CPS
  • What are the broader societal impacts of CPS and how should they be addressed in a CPS research program?
  • What are the educational issues and how should the CPS research initiative address them at the graduate/undergraduate/K-12 levels?
  • How should technology transition be encouraged and supported?
  • What are effective mechanisms for supporting international collaboration?
  • How can the NSF CPS initiative be coordinated with other government and industrial initiatives?

1. The CPS Vision
   • grand challenge problems
     
   • scientific challenges
     
   • technological challenges
     

2. Architecture of a CPS Research Initiative
   • scope: disciplines and domains
     
   • types of projects over the program life cycle
     
   • structure of interdisciplinary projects
     
   • models for industrial collaboration
     
   • dissemination of results
     

3. Scientific Foundations
   • fundamental questions
     
   • elements of the science of CPS
     
   • foundational disciplines
     
   • interdisciplinary barriers
     
   • intra-disciplinary barriers
     
   • motivating applications
     

4. Engineering and Technological Foundations
   • vision for tool chains that support analysis, design, implementation, and certification
     
   • development of test beds
     
   • technological substrates and architectures
     
   • high confidence and security
     
   • off-line computational tools
     
   • on-line capabilities
     
   • certification
     

5. Broader Impact
   • societal impacts of CPS
     
   • addressing societal impacts in the CPS research program
     
   • education: graduate/undergraduate/K-12
     
   • addressing education in the CPS research program
     
   • technology transition
     
   • international collaboration