CPS

Cyber-Physical Systems

Co-charing the industry/project dissemination session at CRITIS 2019

2019-05-17

The 14th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2019, will be held in Linköping on September 23-25 2019.

CRITIS 2019 aims at bringing together researchers, professionals from academia, critical (information) infrastructure operators, industry, defence sector and governmental organisations working in the field of the security of critical (information) infrastructure systems. Moreover, CRITIS aims to encourage and inspire early stage and open-minded researchers in this demanding multi-disciplinary field of research.

Francesco Flammini, Senior Lecturer at Linnaeus University, is a part of the Technical Committee of the conference and will be co-charing the industry/project dissemination session.

For more information about the conference, see the conference website.

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS — Industrial/practical experience reports

https://critis2019.on.liu.se/CFP-CRITIS2019-IndExp.pdf

Critical infrastructures must fulfil dependability requirements that impose the use of rigorous techniques during procurement, development, commissioning and training/preparedness, as well as in regulatory audits of the operational systems.

In this CRITIS special session we solicit short presentations from an industrial perspective addressing any aspect of such processes and of the supervision of critical operations. Reports of actual cases are welcome including success stories or failure/emergency management operations with the aim of sharing lessons learnt. Contributions to this session are also welcome by academics working on research projects with industrial partners who have driven experimental evaluations of research outcomes and prototypes with the help of real-world data, or have validated hypotheses by performing surveys and interviews.

The submissions in this session have the following characteristics:

  • Papers of 1-2 pages in length (including references and figures), using the Springer format.
  • The submissions are NOT anonymised
  • The title of the submission must include the words “Industry/Experience report”

The submissions in this session will be evaluated by the two session chairs:

  • Sokratis K. Katsikas (NTNU, Norway & Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
  • Francesco Flammini (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

The final versions of the contributions (reflecting the comments by the session chairs and necessary improvements) will be shown on the conference web page and presented during the conference, and can be later extended and published in other venues.

Important dates:

  • Submission deadline: 9th June 2019
  • Notification of acceptance: 20th June 2019
  • Final version submission: 9th September 2019

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 23rd 2019

Final program

CRITIS 2019_Smart-Troubleshooting_POSTER

 

UPDATE DECEMBER 22nd 2019

The industry session white paper has been published in CRITIS’19 conference proceedings and it is now accessible here.

 

Learn more about Artemis IA and European projects

2019-05-13

The department of Computer Science and Media Technology is a members of Artemis IA through Francesco Flammini but we believe it can be benifical for many of you to get involved in the work since it gives you great opportunities for building international networks for European projects. Next week we will get a visit from Paolo Azzoni who is the Research Program Manager at EUROTECH Group, he will present the results of an assessment of research projects within Artemis IA.

So if you are curious we invite you to a lunch seminar;

  • When? Tuesday May 14th 12.00-13.00
  • Where? D1167
  • Practical information: Bring your own lunch. If you confirm your participation to diana.unander@lnu.se before noon May 13th there will be coffee/tea and something sweet as a dessert.

Bio Paolo Azzoni

Paolo Azzoni is the Research Program Manager at EUROTECH Group. He is responsible for planning and directing industrial research projects, investigating technologies beyond the state of the art in computer science, developing a wide network of academic research groups and providing the financial support to company research activities. His main working areas include cyber-physical systems (CPS), intelligent systems, machine-to-machine distributed systems, device to cloud solutions, and Internet of Things. He participated in several European research projects in the contexts of FP7, Artemis, Aeneas, ECSEL and H2020, and he is a European Community Independent Expert.Läs resten av detta inlägg»

DisCoRail 2019 – International Workshop on Distributed Computing in Future Railway Systems

2019-04-17

DisCoRail 2019 is a satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2019, held on June 17, 2019 in Lyngby, Denmark. Francesco Flammini, Linnæus University, is invited as a speaker and will give a talk on Towards Railway Virtual Coupling.

DisCoTec gathers several conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. The aim of the DisCoRail’19 workshop is to discuss the following topics

  • how distributed computing has changed, and will even more change, the particular domain of railway signaling and train control systems
  • how formal techniques can help to address problems arising from this change.

For more information about DisCoRail 2019, see the conference website.

The final technical program is now available at this link.

//Diana Unander

 

Update June 17th

Abstracts:

https://www.discotec.org/2019/DisCoRailAbstracts.pdf

Slides of the presentation:

Flammini_DISCORAIL

Picture from the talk:

SUNET-days spring 2019

2019-04-08

SUNET (Swedish University computer Network) is a unit at Vetenskapsrådet, department of research infrastructure. This year staff from SUNET-connected organization gathered for the yearly  SUNET-days at Linnaeus University on April 1-4. For more information about the program click here.

Among the presenters during the days was Francesco Flammini, one of the researchers of the CPS group. He gave a presentation on AI techniques in cyber security applications. You can find his presentation here.

//Diana Unander

IEEE SMC’19 October 6-9, 2019 – Bari, Italy

2019-03-06

IEEE SMC 2019 is the annual premier conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. It represents an international forum for researchers and practitioners to report up-to-the-minute innovation and development, summarize state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of systems science and engineering, human machine systems, and cybernetics.

The theme of the conference is Industry 4.0 and we would like to pay attention to two of the events that Francesco Flammini is the co-organizer for. More information about all the special sessions.

“Symbiotic Autonomous Systems in Smart-Cities and Industry 4.0”, one-day tutorial

Read more on: SMC2019_T8

“Homeland Security: Tools and Methodologies” This special session will bring experts, practitioners and researchers together with the aim to present and discuss all type of innovation related to Homeland Security applications. Expected contributions for this special session will range from the analysis and modelling of all-hazard threats to risk prevention/mitigation strategies and intelligence solutions based on Big Data and OSINT analysis, and from cyber-security of IT, IoT and OT systems to consequence analyses based on simulations or serious games.

You can read more about papers that are particularly welcome here

Important deadlines:
March 31, 2019: deadline for paper submission
June 7, 2019: notification of paper acceptance/rejection
July 7, 2019: deadline for final camera-ready papers.

UPDATE OCTOBER 7th 2019

Pictures taken from the Tutorial on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems

Pictures taken from the Special Session on Homeland Security

 

Welcome to the new CPS-blog

2019-03-05

We have decided to start a new blog so that we can keep you updated on what is going on within the research group for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) at Linnaeus University, this gives us a chance to share more information and smaller news than by only using the lnu-website. In order for this to be an active platform we like you to help us creating the information flow. Let us know what you would like to hear more about!