Resilience Week 2018

Resilience Week is a co-sponsored symposium dedicated to promising research in resilient systems that will protect critical cyber-physical infrastructures from unexpected and malicious threats - securing our way of life.

ELEMENTS OF RESILIENCE

Control Systems: Engineering systems are increasingly subjected to disturbances which are not generally predictable at design time. These disturbances can be man-made or naturally occurring, and they can be physical or cyber in nature. In order to ensure resilient system performance, multi-disciplinary control approaches that provide intrinsic state awareness and intelligence are required.
Cyber Systems: Engineered systems in use today are highly dependent on computation and communication resources. This includes systems of all kinds, ranging from vehicles to large-scale industrial systems and national critical infrastructures. The resilience of the computational systems and infrastructures underlying these technologies is of great importance for mission continuity, security and safety. Resilience, in this context, is understood as the ability of a system to anticipate, withstand, recover, and evolve from cyber-attacks and failures. In this symposium we will focus on the topic of resilience of cyberphysical systems. Among others, the concepts of cyber awareness, anticipation, avoidance, protection, detection, and response to cyber-attacks will be promoted and will help set the tone of the event. A better understanding of the science and engineering of these concepts and its supporting technologies will help provide some of the key underlying capabilities for the design and development of resilient cyber-physical systems.
Cognitive Systems: Many environments critical to cyber and physical infrastructure exhibit interplays between engineering systems design and human factors engineering. The Cognitive Systems track will explore how people, individually and in teams, engage in cognitive and cooperative problem solving in complex, time-critical, and high-consequence settings. We will emphasize technology designs, operating concepts and procedures, and cognitive science research that improves overall human-system performance and increases the resilience and robustness of complex sociotechnical systems. Joint sessions with the Control Systems and Cyber Systems Symposia will explore the functional relations of systems integrating humans, automation, and system management resources.
Communication Systems: Many commercial and government applications require reliable and secure communications for effective operations. These communications are often challenged in contested environments - whether from hostile states in a denial of service scenario, degraded infrastructure following a man-made or natural disaster, or finite spectrum pressure that restrict agility. The symposium will highlight how incorporation of resiliency in communications systems can support a wide range of applications given uncertainty in the communication environment.

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

Infrastructures: Creating and sustaining resilient critical infrastructure is a diverse and complex mission. Critical infrastructure systems in the United States consist of a diversity of interdependent networks, varied operating and ownership models, systems in both the physical world and cyberspace, and stakeholders from multi-jurisdictional levels. Methods to improve critical infrastructure resilience are advancing, but much more can be done. Large-scale disasters have revealed that decision makers often struggle to identify or determine key components and interdependency relationships in infrastructure systems, optimal resource allocation to increase resilience or reduce risk, and optimal response plans. The Resilient Critical Infrastructure Symposium seeks to bridge the gaps among local, city and state entities, infrastructure owner-operators, federal agencies, and researchers to advance a productive discussion of tools, technologies, and policies for improving critical infrastructure resilience.
Communities: Communities provide the fabric that integrates the provision of our individual needs and support networks. Connections between individuals and groups serve as critical drivers for bouncing back from shocks, including damaging storms and other catastrophic events. Therefore, the role of social networks and cohesion is important in organizational and community resilience. It is also important that as we see increased magnitude and impact of events, consideration of planning and policies that reflect availability and distribution of key resources be in place that will make communities and populations more resilient to large-scale disruptions.

NATIONAL RESILIENCE THEME

Resilience Week will include a thematic area for broad topical participation that focuses on recent natural and manmade events to establish challenges and solutions to further advance the resilience of our infrastructure and communities. Leveraging partnerships with government and industry, ground truth data from recent events will be provided for extraction and use by participants to align discussions on technology developments and research. The resulting forum will provide opportunity for a dialogue that will inform future research and technology development efforts to address pressing needs in anticipation of future catastrophic events.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair

• Craig Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory

Organizing Chair

• Jodi Grgich, Idaho National Laboratory

Control Systems

• Frank Ferrese, Naval Sea Systems Command
• David Scheidt, Weather Gage Technologies, LLC

Cyber Systems

• David Manz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Michael Haney, University of Idaho

Cognitive Systems

• Ron Boring, Idaho National Laboratory
• Roger Lew, University of Idaho

Communication Systems

• Krishna Kant, Temple University
• Gurdip Singh, Syracuse University

Infrastructures and Communities

• David Alderson, Naval Postgraduate School
• Cherrie Black, Idaho National Laboratory
• Kathleen Tierney, University of Colorado