CPS Summit

Cyber-Physical Systems Summit
"Holistic Approaches to Cyber-Physical Integration"
April 24-25, 2008 | St. Louis, Missouri
http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/Summit/

PROGRAM | BREAKOUTS | ORGANIZERS

The 2008 CPS Summit, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, was held during CPS Week in St. Louis, Missouri. The Summit kicked off the evening of April 24, 2008 and ran through April 25, 2008.

As computers become ever-faster and communication bandwidth ever-cheaper, computing and communication capabilities will be embedded in all types of objects and structures in the physical environment. Applications with enormous societal impact and economic benefit will be created by harnessing these capabilities in time and across space. Such systems that bridge the cyber-world of computing and communications with the physical world are called cyber-physical systems.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are physical and engineered systems whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled and integrated by a computing and communication core. This intimate coupling between the cyber and physical will be manifested from the nano-world to large-scale wide-area systems of systems. And at multiple time-scales.

Cyber-physical systems will transform how we interact with the physical world just like the Internet transformed how we interact with one another.

The CPS Summit Report can be found at http://cps-vo.org/summit/2008/report.

PROGRAM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Morning Breakout Sessions
The theme for the morning breakout sessions will be as follows.

• 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

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

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

Issues to consider (identify the topics that need the most innovation):

• Group 1: Architecture for a CPS research initiative

  • What disiplines and domains should be included in a CPS program?
  • What types of projects will be most effective (emphasis, duraction, size, etc.) over the program life cycle?
  • How should interdisciplinary research 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?

ORGANIZERS

NSF Sponsors

Dr. Helen Gill, Program Director, CNS, NSF
Dr. Scott Midkiff, Program Director, EECS, NSF

Organizing Committee

Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University
Edward Lee, University of California at Berkeley
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Al Mok, University of Texas at Austin
George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania
Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
Harvey Rubin, University of Pennsylvania
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, University of California at Berkeley
Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kang Shin, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia at Charlottesville
Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University
Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Tech
Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute