This project is to support two meetings sponsored by the High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Coordinating Group (CG)of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, the Nation's primary source of Federally funded revolutionary breakthroughs in advanced information technologies such as computing, networking, and software. The two meetings are the 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Systems, which is scheduled for October 25-27, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 2012 CPS Education Workshop Planning Meeting, which is scheduled for October 24, 2012 at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Baltimore, also in Baltimore, Maryland. The objective of the New Clockwork workshop is to define a list of needs for research on time-critical aspects of cyber-physical systems so that future research can develop robust foundations for reasoning about time in cyber-physical systems across scales, managing resources to meet timeliness requirements, and ensuring service agreements through new tools, techniques and methodologies. The workshop will be structured as a sequence of panels, presentations and breakout sessions. The workshop will produce a report for the HCSS agencies. The objective of the CPS Education Planning Meeting is to lay groundwork for a workshop that would perform a similar analysis of future educational needs and directions in support of high confidence cyber-physical systems. Both meetings will include participation by invited researchers and representatives from Government and industry.
The major goal of this project award was to organize the end to end planning and execution of two activities jointly sponsored by the NSF and the NSA, including the 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems held October 25-27, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland and the 2012 CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop Planning Meeting held October 24, 2012 at the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. I. The 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems The 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems assembled over 60 leading researchers and technology managers in academia, government, and industry to brainstorm a list of needs for research on time-critical aspects of cyber-physical systems (CPS) so that future research agendas in CPS can develop robust foundations for reasoning about time on cyber-physical systems across scales, managing resources to meet timeliness requirements, and ensuring service agreements through new tools, techniques and methodologies. This national workshop was a take-off from the 2012 Planning Meeting on The New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems that was held June 11 and 12, 2012, in Dayton, Ohio. Session topics in the following categories were covered: The new clockwork and clock synchronization Application domains Challenges and algorithms Time criticality, verification, validation, vulnerability assessment, and security Architecture, systems, and tools All public artifacts, including speaker presentations, the meeting program, meeting participants, and meeting organizers have been disseminated to communities of interest via the 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems website at http://cps-vo.org/group/time-criticalworkshops, and supplemented by associated artifacts stored on the Program Committee site at http://cps-vo.org/group/nitrd/time12 and the 2012 The New Clockwork for Time-Critical Systems Planning Meeting at http://cps-vo.org/group/time/planning. An immediate outcome of the 2012 National Workshop on the New Clockwork for Time-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems was the first draft of the workshop report. This draft report can be found on the workshop’s public website at http://cps-vo.org/group/time-crticalworkshops/draft-report. The final workshop report is in process of being finalized and will be posted to the workshop website home page at http://cps-vo.org/group/time-criticalworkshops. General Co-Chairs for this workshop were: Edward Lee (UC-Berkeley) Raj Rajkumar (CMU) Program Committee members included: John Eidson (UC-Berkeley) John Rushby (SRI) Aloysius Mok (UT-Austin) II. 2012 CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop Planning Meeting The one-day 2012 CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop Planning Meeting brought together 25 leading CPS community experts in academia, government, and industry to plan the proceedings for a larger national workshop that took place at CPS Week 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 8-11, 2013. The goal of the 2012 Planning Meeting was to identify and define research needs in the area of CPS education that focus on new approaches to teaching cyber-physical systems research. Illustrative topics that were covered were: Training and motivating the next generation of CPS researchers CPS course curricula development to achieve a better understanding of the criteria by which topics should be considered for inclusion in CPS curricula with respect to cross-disciplinary theory, laboratory content, or both Emerging CPS research Problems arising from interdisciplinary research involving laboratory content, or both Novel applications that become possible by way of the integration of computing, communication, and interaction with the physical world Initial system architecture that addressed some of these research problems, and more Immediate outcome of the 2012 CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop Planning Meeting were: The first Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Education call for participation A draft agenda for the workshop A plan for recruiting speakers and participants A plan for producing a workshop report All public artifacts, including the speaker presentations, the meeting program, meeting participants, and registration information have been disseminated to communities of interest via the 2012 CPS 2012 CPS Curriculum/Education Workshop Planning Meeting website at http://cps-vo.org/group/edu/planning. General Co-Chairs for this activity were: Christopher Brooks (UC-Berkeley) Jeff Jensen (National Instruments)
