CPS Summer School 2019 (Porto Conte Ricerche, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy)

CPS Summer School 2019 - Designing Cyber-Physical Systems - From concepts to implementation

Cyber-physical systems are complex and autonomous ensembles of different components that directly cooperate to offer smart and adaptive functionalities. They are composed of sensors, actuators, and processing components that are deeply entangled: they constantly exchange information and actively interact with the external environment. So they are increasingly used in a variety of applications with a growing market. CPSs will potentially bring about significant social benefits; nevertheless, there is no such thing as a free lunch and several new challenges and trade-offs must be faced in their design, especially when the CPS should adapt to the changing environment or heal itself. Indeed, different nodes could cooperate to enrich the offered functionality. All the components are typically characterized by different spatial and temporal scales, while multiple and distinct behavioural modalities and contexts should normally be taken into consideration. In addition, uncertain operation environments and interactions with humans as users and/or as operators complicate the scenarios of these ever increasingly pervasive systems. Anyway, the Human Factor is not to be considered a constraint, but an opportunity for creating more useful and robust CPSs. An important effort has to be done in avoiding to privilege technology respect to users/operators needs and on the contrary in designing CPS systems to potentiate human abilities during the interaction with them, instead of doing a technology push.

The third edition of the CPS summer school is targeted at students, research scientists, and R&D experts from academia and industry, who want to learn about CPS engineering and applications. The program will cover all the design phases of CPSs, starting from the conception of the idea down to the definition of the final system and will discuss the key challenges (including adaptivity support, modelling and security) presenting state-of-the-art tools and methods and allowing participants to play with industrial and academic design environments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Market trends for CPS
• Hardware/software and multi-view modelling
• Adaptivity
• Low power design of heterogeneous systems
• Tools for dataflow design, high-level synthesis, hardware/software co-design, and coarse/fine reconfiguration

Keynote Speakers

• Davide Ariu, PluribusOne, Cagliari (Italy)
• Luca Carloni - Columbia University, New York City (USA)
• Luigia Carlucci Aiello - La Sapienza University, Rome (Italy)
• Jeronimo Castrillon, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden (Germany)
• Nuria de Lama, Vice-Secretary General (BDVA) and European Programs Manager (Atos)
• Nikil Dutt - University of California, Irvine (USA)
• Giovanni Pruneddu - University of Sassari, Sassari (Italy)
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• Armando Tacchella - University of Genova, Genova (Italy)

Topics: (http://www.cpsschool.eu/program/)

• Monday 23th - CPS Fundamentals and Workshop - The first day will lay the foundations of the CPS both from the scientific and industrial point of view thanks to the keynotes given by Nikil Dutt and Nuria de Lama. The keynote talks will be followed by the CPS Workshop.
• Tuesday 24th - Architectures for CPS - It includes a keynote from Luca Carloni, on hardware architectures on embedded systems and a practical Tutorial on self-adaptation in Cyber-Physical Systems in the context of the CERBERO H2020 EU Project. The Beach Note given by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will conclude the day.
• Wednesday 25th - Modelling and Programming - It includes a keynote from Jeronimo Castrillon on the methods and tools for programming complex systems and a practical Tutorial on the technologies developed in the context of the ALOHA H2020 EU Project.
• Thursday 26th - CPS Requirements - It includes a keynote from Luigia Carlucci Aiello on ethical aspects of CPSs. Then, the keynotes from Davide Ariu and Armando Tacchella will focus on safety/security critical aspects in the implementation of complex systems. The talk from Giovanni Pruneddu on the legal aspects behind smart devices will conclude the working day.
• Friday 27th - Creative Lab - It is a work-oriented environment meant to promote the exchange of ideas between Phd students with the spirit of creating a new business culture. During the day, participants are going to develop innovative ideas and projects.

Application and Registration: (http://www.cpsschool.eu/application/)

Confirmed Speakers: (http://www.cpsschool.eu/confirmed-speakers/)

The Summer School is possible thanks to the several speakers and organizers who donate their time to make this event a success. The list of speakers is currently being updated.

• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• Alessandra Bagnato - Softeam, Paris (France)
• Armando Tacchella - University of Genoa, Genoa (Italy)
• Christian Pilato - Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (Switzerland)
• Danilo Pau - STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza (Italy)
• Eduardo de la Torre - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
• Francesca Palumbo - University of Sassari, Sassari (Italy)
• Francesco Regazzoni - Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (Switzerland)
• Hironori Kasahara - Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan)
• Jocelyn Serot - Institut Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
• Joost Adriaanse - TNO, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
• Julio De Oliveira Filho - TNO, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
• Karol Desnos - INSA de Rennes, Rennes (France)
• Michael Masin - IBM Research, Haifa (Israel)
• Muhammad Shafique - TU Wien, Vienna (Austria)
• Paolo Meloni - University of Cagliari, Cagliari (Italy)
• Ugo della Croce - University of Sassari, Sassari (Italy)