June 22, 2009

7:00-8:00   Workshop Registration

8:00-9:00   Breakfast

9:00-9:10   Welcome from the WCPS organizers 

9:15-10:30  Keynote Speech by Professor Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar, CMU
Title: Research Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems
Abstract:  This talk will outline a vision for cyber-physical systems.  Research challenges will be discussed, along with some insights into emerging capabilities and potential impact.

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:40 Session 1: (Chair: Prof. Steve Goddard)

• Joint Sleep Scheduling and Mode Assignment in WirelessCyber-Physical Systems
  by Chun Xue, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Zili Shao and Edwin Sha


• PNet: A Grid type Sensor Network of Reconfigurable Nodes
  by Varun Subramanian and Alex Doboli 


• Challenges Towards Elastic Power Management in Internet Data Centers
  by Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, Xue Liu, Wenbo He
  
• Adaptive Data Replication for Load Sharing in a Sensor Data Center
  by Kyoung-Don Kang and Can Basaran

12:40-14:00  Lunch Break

14:00-15:40 Session 2: (Chair: Prof. Wenbo He)

• Comparision of FieldBus Systems, CAN, TTCAN, FlexRay and LIN in Passenger Vehicles
  by Steve Talbot and Shangping Ren.


• Automatic Mobile Vehicle for Adaptive Real-time Communication  Relay
  by Hai Hu, Furong Wang, Fan Zhang and Weijia Jia


• Embedded Virtual Machines for Robust Wireless Control Systems
  by Rahul Mangharam and Miroslav Pajic


• Event Model for Cyber-Physical Systems
  by Ying Tan, Mehmet Can Vuran and Steve Goddard

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:40 Session 3: (Chair: Prof. Rahul Mangharam )

• A dynamic battery model for co-design in cyber-physical systems
  by Fumin Zhang, Zhenwu Shi and Wayne Wolf


• The Case for Timing-Centric Distributed Software
  by Edward A. Lee, Slobodan Matic, Sanjit A. Seshia, and Jia Zou 


• A Cluster-based Protocol To Enforce Integrity and Preserve Privacy in
  Data Aggregation
  by Wenbo He, Xue Liu, Hoang Nguyen and Klara Nahrstedt 


• An Approach to Middleware Specialization for Cyber Physical Systems
  by Akshay Dabholkar and Aniruddha Gokhale

17:40-18:00  Concluding Remarks and  Discussions

18:00  Workshop Ends