CfP: Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy 2016)

Call for Papers

Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy 2016)

Held in conjunction with ESWEEK 2016

October 6 2016 | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | http://www.cyphy.org/

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) combine computing and networking power with physical components. They enable innovation in a wide range of domains including robotics; smart homes, vehicles, and buildings; medical implants; and future-generation sensor networks. CyPhy'16 brings together researchers and practitioners working on modeling, simulation, and evaluation of CPS, based on a broad interpretation of these areas, to collect and exchange expertise from a diverse set of disciplines. The workshop places particular focus on techniques and components to enable and support virtual prototyping and testing.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 10, 2016
Notifications: August 24, 2016
Camera Ready: September 5, 2016
Workshop: October 6, 2016

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of cyber-physical systems:

• Foundations: models of computation, modeling and simulation languages for hybrid and cyber­physical systems, including hybrid automata and hybrid process theory, as well as other integrations of control-­theoretic and discrete-­event models;
• Methods: Specifications and evaluation of processes for rigorous modeling, testing, simulation, and verification of new cyber-­physical systems;
• Case studies: Development of industrial or research ­oriented cyber­-physical systems in domains such as robotics, smart systems (homes, vehicles, buildings), medical and healthcare devices, future generation networks; and
• Tools: Evaluation of novel research tools, comparisons of state of the art tools in industrial practice.

Submissions types:

1. research papers (max. 15 pages);
2. positions papers (max. 4 pages, not published); and
3. tool demonstrations (max. 10 pages).

Research papers will be judged for technical novelty and scientific merit. Any previous publication in any form must be explicitly identified and cited on the first page of the submission. Papers in all other categories will be judged on novelty, clarity, accessibility, and suitability for a high quality presentation and discussion at the workshop.

Submissions of type 1 and 3 will be published after the workshop in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. If the quality of the submissions warrants, a special issue of an archival journal will be negotiated for the best submissions (subject to confirmation, and an additional round of review).

Submit a paper

Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair web site.

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Style, not exceed the respective page limits (including figures and references), and be submitted in PDF.

Except for regular research papers, the paper category must be indicated at the end of the title in parenthesis at the time of the initial submission and in the final camera ready version.

Simultaneous submission to other venues with a formal publication (workshops, conferences, symposia, and journals) is not allowed. Duplicated submissions or other types of plagiarism will result in rejection and a report will be sent to the corresponding institution's dean or manager.

Papers not adhering to the format or page limit may be rejected without a review.

Committees
General Chair
Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities

Program Chairs
Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg
Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University
Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg U., Denmark

Program Committee
Jakob Axelsson, SICS and Mälardalen University
Christian Berger, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg
Manuela Bujorianu, Leicester University
Thao Dang, Verimag, France
Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University
Scott Hissam, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daisuke Ishii, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Zhiyun Lin, Zhejiang University
Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University
Wojciech Mostowski, Halmstad University
Enrico Pagello, University of Padua, Italy
Mihaly Petreczky, CNRS Lille, France
Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH University Aachen
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University
Bernhard Schätz, TU München
Christoph Seidl, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Christoffer Sloth, Aalborg U., Denmark
Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona, USA
Martin Steffen, Oslo University
Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University Nijmegen
Rafael Wisniewski, Aalborg U., Denmark

Publicity Chair
Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University

Advisory Committee
Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München
Karl Iagnemma, MIT
Karl Henrik Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Pieter Mosterman, McGill University
Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University
Walid Taha, Halmstad & Rice Universities