MB4CP 2015 - International Workshop on Model Based Design for Cyber-Physical Systems

The emerging cyber-physical is incorporating intelligence into power distribution networks. A cyber-physical provides the capabilities to handle the challenges of increasing complexity in the bulk power grid, to respond to demand growth, support renewable energy sources and satisfy the requirements for enhanced, adaptive service quality. Achieving these goals requires a framework for the cohesive integration of communication and information technologies, interconnected in a complex energy and information real-time control network. This framework must provide the principle properties of cyber-physicals, including self-healing, availability and responsiveness to demand and supply variability. The cyber-physical poses new challenges for security and privacy because of the increased possibilities for information exchange.
Call for Papers
This workshop will focus on understanding and identifying the unique challenges and opportunities computer systems modelling and analysis to contribute to and enhance the design and development of the cyber-physical. In cyber-physicals, the geographical scale, requirements on real-time performance and reliability, and diversity of application functionality all combine to produce a unique, highly demanding problem domain. The objective of this workshop is to bring together members of the software engineering community and the power engineering community to understand these requirements and determine the most appropriate software engineering tools, methods and techniques.
Topics of Interest
The MB4CP workshop is interested in submissions on all topics related to identifying and developing appropriate methods, tools and techniques for cyber-physical software. Specifically, we will focus on:
Applications that support power engineering operations. Such applications include, but are not limited to, complex event processing systems for managing and manipulating large amounts of real-time sensor data, and systems that provide infrastructure for metering, analysis, decision support and control applications;
Software and enterprise architectures tailored for cyber-physicals, including the challenges of the Cyber-physical as an ultra-large-scale system
The need for designing applications with advanced computing capabilities. This requires understanding the implications of, for example, exploiting cloud computing and high performance, multicore computing platforms for computationally intensive cyber-physical functions;
Designing analytic-numeric/simulation frameworks targeting cyber-physicals. These can model designs and quantify system properties, such as responsiveness and availability, based on predictive (numerical, simulated) and historical data.
Methodologies that apply advanced software engineering approaches to analyze and improve the properties of cyber-physical applications. These include model-driven development, self-managing and adaptive software systems, and quality reasoning and evaluation frameworks.
Employing best practices for requirements engineering, verification and validation in cyber-physical. This includes considering the synergy between requirements and architectures in such a critical ultra-large-scale system.
Standards-based distributed architecture solutions and reference architectures that enable open interfaces with plug-and-play hardware and software components.
The design and analysis of robust, scalable security and privacy frameworks for the cyber-physical.
Approaches to modelling and monitoring the system-wide performance, scalability and/or other quality properties of the cyber-physical software framework.
software engineering approaches for business-IT alignment for cyber-physicals
Integrating cyber-physical system modelling and analysis topics into curriculums at teaching institutes
Novel architectures for software systems supporting energy trading and business decisions in the context of cyber-physicals
Lessons learned and experience from successful application of cyber-physical industry standards in software systems