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Shankar Sastry. "Annual Progress Report, Joint EU-US-Tekes Workshop, "Long Term Challenges in High Confidence Evolutionary Embedded Systems", Grant No CNS-06369330". Technical report, Team for Research in Ubitquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), July, 2007.

Abstract
The workshop on “Long Term Challenges in High Confidence Evolutionary Embedded Systems was held in Helsinki on June 21, 22, 23 2006. A major conclusion of the Helsinki Workshop was the emergence of a new class of systems Cyber Physical Systems and the needs to analyze and design these systems:. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation with physical processes. Embedded computers and networks monitor and control physical processes in feedback loops where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. For the last 30 years or so, computers have been increasingly embedded in stand-alone, self-contained products. We are poised, however, for a revolutionary transformation as these embedded computers become networked. We refer to such systems, which blend sensing, actuation, computation, networking, and physical processes as action webs. The transformation is analogous to the enormous increment in the utility of personal computers with the advent of the web. Just as personal computers changed from word processors to global communications devices and information portals, embedded computers will change from small self-contained boxes to cyber-physical systems, sensing, monitoring and controlling our intrinsically distributed human environment. The program of the workshop is in Section 1 below and participant list in Section 2. These two items were developed after an extensive planning process consisting of weekly telcons for several months preceding the workshop including all the stakeholders from the US, EU and Tekes. The recommendations of the Helsinki conference are in Section 3 and the plans for a new EU-US Workshop as a follow up to the Helsinki one entitled “Cyber Physical Systems: Network Embedded Systems and Beyond” is in Section 4.. An extensive conference wiki with links to other workshops and significant background material is available at http://www.truststc.org/euus/wiki/Euus/Main.

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  Workshop, "Long Term Challenges in High Confidence
  Evolutionary Embedded Systems", Grant No
  CNS-06369330</i></a>, Technical report,  Team
  for Research in Ubitquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), July,
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  Shankar Sastry. "Annual Progress Report, Joint
  EU-US-Tekes Workshop, "Long Term Challenges in High
  Confidence Evolutionary Embedded Systems", Grant No
  CNS-06369330". Technical report,  Team for Research in
  Ubitquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), July, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{Sastry07_AnnualProgressReportJointEUUSTekesWorkshopLongTerm,
      author = {Shankar Sastry},
      title = {Annual Progress Report, Joint EU-US-Tekes
                Workshop, "Long Term Challenges in High Confidence
                Evolutionary Embedded Systems", Grant No
                CNS-06369330},
      institution = {Team for Research in Ubitquitous Secure Technology
                (TRUST)},
      month = {July},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {The workshop on �Long Term Challenges in High
                Confidence Evolutionary Embedded Systems was held
                in Helsinki on June 21, 22, 23 2006. A major
                conclusion of the Helsinki Workshop was the
                emergence of a new class of systems Cyber Physical
                Systems and the needs to analyze and design these
                systems:. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are
                integrations of computation with physical
                processes. Embedded computers and networks monitor
                and control physical processes in feedback loops
                where physical processes affect computations and
                vice versa. For the last 30 years or so, computers
                have been increasingly embedded in stand-alone,
                self-contained products. We are poised, however,
                for a revolutionary transformation as these
                embedded computers become networked. We refer to
                such systems, which blend sensing, actuation,
                computation, networking, and physical processes as
                action webs. The transformation is analogous to
                the enormous increment in the utility of personal
                computers with the advent of the web. Just as
                personal computers changed from word processors to
                global communications devices and information
                portals, embedded computers will change from small
                self-contained boxes to cyber-physical systems,
                sensing, monitoring and controlling our
                intrinsically distributed human environment. The
                program of the workshop is in Section 1 below and
                participant list in Section 2. These two items
                were developed after an extensive planning process
                consisting of weekly telcons for several months
                preceding the workshop including all the
                stakeholders from the US, EU and Tekes. The
                recommendations of the Helsinki conference are in
                Section 3 and the plans for a new EU-US Workshop
                as a follow up to the Helsinki one entitled
                �Cyber Physical Systems: Network Embedded
                Systems and Beyond� is in Section 4.. An
                extensive conference wiki with links to other
                workshops and significant background material is
                available at <a
                href="http://www.truststc.org/euus/wiki/Euus/Main">http://www.truststc.org/euus/wiki/Euus/Main</a>.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/259.html}
  }
  

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