Second International Workshop on the Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud

April 13 2015

Seattle, Washington, in conjunction with CPSWeek

Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud

Description

Sensor and actuator swarms, which can be wirelessly interconnected and combined with cloud-based services and applications on handheld devices, offer an unprecedented ability to monitor and act on a range of evolving physical quantities. Sensor and actuator-based systems have been proposed and deployed for a broad range of applications, but the potential goes far beyond what has been accomplished so far. When realized in full, these technologies can integrate the cyber world (centered today in the cloud) with our physical/biological world. This can enable humans, machines and infrastructure that are far more aware and adaptive to their environment. Just as today much of our data resides “in the cloud,” tomorrow much of our physical world will have a presence “in the swarm.” From the perspective of the information world, this revolution gives the information network eyes, ears, hands, and feet to interact with the physical world. From the perspective of the physical and biological world, this revolution enables coordination, intelligence, and efficient use of resources. This workshop will bring together world-class experts on the enabling technology, potential applications, and risks of swarm technologies.

Organizers:

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC Berkeley, General Chair
Roozbeh Jafari, UT Dallas, Program Co-Chair
Anthony Rowe, CMU, Program Co-Chair
Miroslav Pajic, U. Pennsylvania, Logistics Co-Chair
Armin Wasicek, UC Berkeley, Logistics Co-Chair

Flyers

Call For Submissions Flyer.

Topics of Interest

Architectures, including APIs, sensors, actuators, computing devices and protocols
Assurance, including security, privacy, and verification
Control, including adaptation, verification and synthesis
Data management, including aggregation, storage, learning, and mining
Modeling of swarm systems
Ontologies of sensors, actuators, and services
Methodologies, including formal methods, contracts, co-simulation, and co-design
Energy-optimized services and devices
Localization technologies and location-aware services
Resource identification, management, allocation, and optimization
Temporal dynamics, including safety-critical networked operation
User interaction, including novel interfaces, omnipresence
Applications to CPS Systems such as health, transportation, energy, smart buildings and smart cities
Relationships among Swarm Systems
Internet-of-Things, Systems of Systems

Program

Location: The Conference Center at Washington State Convention Center, TCC/LL4

On the ground floor, please take the elevator down to LL4.

SEC 2015, April 13, 2015 http://www.terraswarm.org/swec15/
7:30 am to 8:15 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)
8:25 am to 8:30 am	Opening Remarks
8:30 am to 10:00 am	Session 1: Modeling and Programming the Swarm
8:30 am to 9:00 am	Laisa Costa, Pablo Calcina, Jan Rabaey, Marcelo Zuffo and Adam Wolisz. (UC-Berkeley and TU Berlin) Semantic Swarm	Link
9:00 am to 9:30 am	Werner Damm (Universitt Oldenburg) A Conceptual Model of System of Systems	Link
9:30 am to 10:00	Terrell R. Bennett, Nicholas Gans, Roozbeh Jafari, (UT-Dallas) A Data-driven Synchronization Technique for Cyber-Physical Systems	Link
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Coffee break
10:30 am to 12:00 am	Session 2: Apps for the Swarm
10:30 am to 11:00 am	Raja Sengupta (UC Berkeley) NextGen Intelligent Transportation: Measuring People, Controlling Things	Link
11:00 am to 11:30 am	Hasan Esen, Masakazu Adachi, Daniele Bernardini, Alberto Bemporad, Dominik Rost, Jens Knodel, Christian Peper, Hideaki Tanaka and Akihito Iwai. (Denso) Control as a Service (CaaS) : Cloud-based Software Architecture for Automotive Control Applications	Link
11:30 am to 12:00 am	Sergio Pequito and George J. Pappas. (U-Penn) Smart Building: A Private Cyber-Physical System Approach	Link
12:00 am to 1:00 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm	Session 3: Controlling the Swarm
1:00 pm to 1:25 pm	Jaeyeon Jung (Microsoft Research) The Home-Surveillance State: Parents and Teenagers React to Internet-Connected Locks and Cameras in the Home	Link
1:25 pm to 1:50 pm	Daniel Graff, Daniel Rhrig and Jan Rabaey. (UC-Berkeley) Operating System Support for Mobile Robot Swarms	Link
1:50 pm to 2:15 pm	Bradford Campbell, Prabal Dutta and Pat Pannuto. (Univ. of Michigan) Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion Things	Link
2:15 pm to 2:40 pm	Eloi Pereira, Clemens Krainer, Pedro M. Silva, C. Kirsch and R. Sengupta. (UC Berkeley) A Runtime System for Logical-Space Programming	Link
2:40 pm to 3:30 pm	Poster Session, Networking and Coffee break
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm	Panel: Enabling the Swarm: What are the obstacles in the way?	Link
4:30 pm to 4:35 pm	Concluding Remarks

Please find the leaflet of the agenda here.

Submission Guidelines for Manuscripts

Papers should describe original work and be maximum 6 pages in length using the ACM SIGS style. A maximum of two extra pages is allowed. Submission is done via easychair.

Schedule

~~December 22~~ January 31, 2015	Submission deadline
~~January 23~~ February 14, 2015	Notifications
February 17 21, 2015	Camera Ready papers
April 13, 2015	Workshop day

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