How to Engineer Resilient Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
Sunday, December 14, 2014, 8:30AM-5:00PM
Modern infrastructure systems are equipped with increasing amounts of computing and communication technologies, with the objective of improving their performance. Additionally, these systems also involve significant interactions with human operators and participants. An important need, especially in the case of safety-critical infrastructures, is engineering their resilience -- both to random failures and targeted adversarial attacks. With the increasingly interconnected nature of infrastructure systems, issues of network control and cascading failures are a growing concern.
There has been considerable recent progress on control- and systems-theoretic approaches to building resilient infrastructure systems. The approaches have addressed a range of needs of cyber-physical systems, including fault-tolerant and robust control and optimization, intrusion detection and response, security and privacy concerns, software verification and validation, human-automation interactions, mechanism design, modeling and simulation, etc. These techniques have been studied in the context of a range of infrastructure systems, such as transportation, electricity, energy, telecommunications, and water and gas distribution systems.
This workshop will review the state-of-the-art in control-theoretic approaches to build resilient cyber-physical infrastructures. Experts from industry and academia will describe key challenges, promising approaches and necessary future research directions.
Confirmed Speakers
- Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Hamsa Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tamer Başar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eric Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
- George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania
- Tariq Samad, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions
- Demosthenis Teneketzis, University of Michigan
Intended Audience
The intended audience includes graduate students and researchers in controls interested in cyber-physical infrastructures, and practitioners interested in practical challenges in infrastructure systems. This workshop aims at introducing key technologies and the state-of-the-art in control-theoretic and game-theoretic tools for engineering cyber-physical infrastructure systems that are resilient to adversarial attacks and random failures. Given the ubiquitous nature of cyber-physical infrastructure systems in today's world, this workshop will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals.
Tentative Schedule
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