Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems

Event Dates

Apr 15, 2019 - Apr 16, 2019

Location

Munich, Germany

Submission Deadline

Mar 01, 2019

*** Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems (SelPhyS) ***

** Last Call! Updated deadline for submissions! **

4th Edition, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 15-16th of April 2019

Organizers: A.Herkersdorf (Chair), N.Dutt, L.Esterle, A.Jantsch, P.Lewis, A.Sadighi, N.TaheriNejad, K.Tammemäe, T.Wild

https://selphys.ict.tuwien.ac.at/index.php

DESCRIPTION:

* The concept of self-awareness has become a hot research topic in a variety

of disciplines such as robotics, artificial intelligence, control theory,

networked systems, and so on. Its applicability has been explored in various

application domains such as automotive, military, consumer electronics,

industrial control, medical equipment, and so forth. The topic owes its

attractiveness to many examples in insects, animals and humans, where

self-awareness is attributed to facilitate highly resilient and outstandingly

efficient behaviors. Thus, self-awareness holds the promise to promote

dependability in all types of smart gadgets and artificial agents in the

interconnected world of future.

* The main purpose of this workshop is to build a community and to try to

develop a shared and communal understanding of the main concepts underlying

self-awareness with respect to CPS. Currently, self-awareness is studied in a

range of different communities, where the underlying assumptions, definitions

and goals differ significantly. This workshop will provide a forum for

reflections and in-depth discussions of the pivotal concepts of this field

which will serve as a basis for building an integrated scientific community

and for developing future research projects.

* In addition to invited keynote speech and participants’ talks, we will

study and scrutinize specific systems and underlying concept of observation and

it role in self-awareness and its respective properties in hands-on exercises

and group discussions. Some procedures will be proposed, based on which workshop

participants will work on identification of various observation methods and its

effect on awareness in systems (described in the literature or proposed by

participants). This exercise will serve as a platform for analyzing the

principles and basic concepts of self-awareness, specifically observation

and its role in the self-awareness of the systems under study as well as

other systems. By engagement of the community in this hands-on joint practice we

hope to generate new ideas for future research directions and foster new and

stronger collaborations.

***

We seek previously published or unpublished contributions for oral and/or

poster presentations on research relevant to self-awareness in cyber-physical

systems on, but not limited to, the following topics and application areas

TOPICS:

– Self-Awareness in resource constrained distributed systems

– Self-awareness in HW, Operating System, and applications

– Self-awareness facilitating autonomous, adaptive or resilient behavior

– Demonstration of self-awareness

– Architectures

– Design methods

– Systems with other Self-* properties

APPLICATION AREAS:

– Sensor Networks

– Internet of Things

– Automotive

– Robotics

– Health Monitoring

– Industrial Automation

– Autonomous Vehicles

– System-on-Chip

SUBMISSION:

The workshop submissions (*one page extended abstract, PDF format only*) has

to be sent to workshop organizers (contact below). Organizers will sort the

abstracts according to their relevance and expected impact to the workshop

outcome. The number of presentation time-slots is limited.

Authors of accepted submissions will be informed about decision and proposed

presentation format before CPS WEEK early registration deadline.

Authors of accepted submissions will have opportunity to make their work

public at the workshop website, but there will be no obligation to do so.

IMPORTANT DATES:

*** Deadline for extended abstracts: 1 March 2019 ***

*** Decision of selection: 15 March 2019 ***

*** Event Date: 15-16 April 2019 ***

*** Submit to: Axel Jantsch: axel.jantsch@tuwien.ac.at ***