PERSYVAL-Lab Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems

Domain:

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from and depend upon the synergy of computational and physical components. CPS are becoming an important part of our daily life. Humans build, deploy, use, and maintain these systems that can sense our activities and influence our behavior. Examples of the many CPS application areas include the smart electric grid, smart transportation, smart buildings, smart medical technologies, next-generation air traffic management, and advanced manufacturing. CPS are expected to have great technical, economic and societal impacts in the near future.

CPS will transform the way people interact with engineered systems, just as the Internet transformed the way people interact with information. We will increasingly rely on these networked embedded systems, therefore also requiring a secure and privacy-preserving treatment of sensitive human-centric data. Novel paradigms and solutions are also needed to allow humans to interact with these systems. However, these goals cannot be achieved without rigorous systems engineering. Emerging CPS will be coordinated, distributed, and connected, and must be robust and responsive. The CPS of tomorrow will need to far exceed the systems of today in capability, adaptability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability.

The PERSYVAL-Lab Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems aims at bringing together researchers from industry and academia. This school explores the manifold relationship between networked embedded systems and humans as their creators, users, and subjects. The format of the Summer School will be a five-day meeting, organized around different aspects of rigorous systems engineering of Cyber Physical Systems.

Goals :

The goal of the summer school is to survey fundamental and applied aspects of CPS and their relationship to humans, as well as to identify novel opportunities and research directions in these areas through a series of lectures by international experts. Participants will also experience the relevant technologies during hands-on courses and be given a chance to present their own work. The school will provide a great opportunity to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future.

Classes will range from basics of sensors to experience from real-world deployments, security, privacy, and dependability, debugging and validation of networked embedded systems, cyber-physical internet, online data Mining, virtual reality, rigorous CPS engineering, networked control systems, management and maintenance of networked embedded systems, interacting with networked embedded systems, applications such as smart energy and smart healthcare.

Students participating at this summer school will learn the current state of the art in CPS and will be able to apply new techniques coming from various communities and backgrounds to their own domain. The CPS Summer School will be held at Grenoble University. Courses will be given in English by experts from industry and academia working in various fields of CPS.

Topics:

• Computer security and cryptography
• System modelling
• Medical devices
• Sensor networks

Invited Speakers :

• Prof. Peter Marwedel - TU Dortmund (Germany)
• Prof. Oleg Sokolsky - University of Pennsylvania (USA)
• Prof. Joseph Sifakis - EPFL (Switzerland) and Verimag (France)
• Dr. Thomas Watteyne - Dust Networks, Inc., Hayward (USA)
• Dr. Jocelyne Troccaz - TIMC/CNRS, Grenoble (France)
• Dr. David Lesens - Astrium Space Transportation (France)
• Prof. Manfred Broy TU Munich (Germany)
• Prof. Kim G Larsen Aalborg University (Denmark)
• Prof. Alexandre David Aalborg University (Denmark)
• Dr. Marius Mikucionis Aalborg University (Denmark)

Target audience

The CPS summer school is open to students from different backgrounds and levels connected to CPS. The target audience ranges from PhD students working in a field related to CPS to Master and engineering students in embedded systems, control systems, networked control systems, wireless, computer science. Researchers and engineers from companies are welcome, and may greatly benefit from the broad vision provided by this Summer School. Since there are limited places, preference will be given to PhD students and companies' staff.

Scientific Board

• Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy (TUM, Munchen)
• Prof. Joseph Sifakis (EPFL, Lausanne, and Verimag, Grenoble)
• Prof. Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University)
• Prof. Marie-Christine Rousset (PERSYVAL-Lab abd LIG, Grenoble)

Organization Committee

• Prof. Saddek Bensalem (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
• Dr. Nicolas Halbwachs (CNRS/Verimag, Grenoble)
• Dr. Erwan Jahier (CNRS/Verimag, Grenoble)
• Dr. Marius Bozga (CNRS/Verimag, Grenoble)

Registration

Will opening in mid-february