[Tinyos] CfP Int. Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Challenges and Applications (CPS-CA'08)

[Mário Alves]

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The CPS-CA'08 workshop will be held 11/JUN/2008 in Santorini Island 
(Greece), in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on 
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'08).

Although the IT transformation in the 20th century appeared 
revolutionary, a bigger change is probably yet to come. The term 
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has come to describe the research and 
technological effort that will ultimately efficiently allow interlinking 
the real world physical objects and cyberspace. Actually, a few other 
terms have been used to describe similar endeavors. The term "Internet 
of Things", originally aiming at RFID technologies, is smoothly becoming 
synonymous for cyber-physical systems. The integration of physical 
processes and computing is not new. Embedded systems have been in place 
since a long time to denote systems that combine physical processes with 
computing. The revolution will come from massively networking embedded 
computing devices which will allow instrumenting the physical world with 
pervasive networks of sensor-rich, embedded computation.

In the long-term, one can expect networks with millions nodes in 
operation. Such Large-scale sensor-rich networked systems will generate 
an enormous amount of data and important challenges need to be 
addressed. A Cyber-Physical System integrates computing, communication 
and storage of information with monitoring and control of physical 
entities, in a timely, reliable, secure, efficient and safe manner. In 
large-scale systems, these are often contradictory requirements, and 
numerous technical challenges are posed, including architectures, 
networks and platforms, OS and middleware, heterogeneous system 
composition, etc. These technical challenges span a number of CPS 
applications, including: critical infrastructure monitoring; 
transportation and automotive networks; power grid management; disaster 
response; precision agriculture; tele-physical services; structural 
monitoring; etc.

The workshop will feature invited talks, including keynotes, panel 
discussions and submitted contributions. Submitted papers should follow 
the IEEE conference format and should not exceed 6 pages in length. File 
formats can be either pdf or postscript. All submissions will be handled 
electronically via email. Submissions must be sent to the workshop 
program chair, Prof. Eduardo Tovar (emt at dei.isep.ipp.pt), before the 
submission deadline (April 7, 2008).

CPS-CA'08 workshop web site: http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/cps-ca08
DCOSS'08 conference web site: http://www.dcoss.org

Submission deadline: 7 April 2008
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