Title:

"Emerging Challenges in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems"

Abstract:

In 2007, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) named systems connected with the physical world the number one research expansion priority towards advancing national networking and information technology capabilities. Visions of distributed cyber-physical systems introduce a new set of challenges in real-time and distributed computing including new programming abstractions, theoretical foundations, distributed services and communication protocols. These challenges are brought about by increased interconnection of subsystems, and the tight integration of computation, communication, and distributed real-time interaction with the physical world. This talk discusses emerging challenges beyond classical embedded systems, and conjectures on new needed services and solutions for designing, deploying, interconnecting, and troubleshooting local and global cyber-physical systems.