Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) is an emerging discipline whose goal is to create a unified theory of control and computation. Computing-in-the-loop is ubiquitous today but the physical and cyber components of these systems are generally designed separately with requirements tossed over the wall. CPS aims to integrate the design of computer and physical systems through control/computing co-design. Applications of cyber-physical systems range from key industry sectors including transportation (automobiles, smart highways, mass transportation and infrastructure, avionics, aviation, airspace management), large-scale critical infrastructures (structures such as buildings and bridges, human environments, the power grid), defense systems, health care (medical devices and health management networks), tele-physical operations (e.g., tele-medicine), and consumer electronics (video games, audio/video processing, and mobile communication devices). This special track calls for papers that identify scientific foundations and technologies that integrate cyber-concepts with the dynamics of physical and engineered systems, with an emphasis on physical processes that include HW/SW co-design. Papers on all aspects of cyber-physical systems will be given due consideration. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Integrated design methods for CPS
• HW/SW co-design for CPS
• Simulation and emulation of CPS
• Integrated tool chains for CPS
• Scalable CPS Architectures
• Composability of software, hardware and physical components
• Analysis of cyber-physical systems with multiple temporal and spatial scales
• High-confidence and security in CPS