TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Decentralized, collaborative control
• Real-time analytics
• Control, extraction, and harvesting loops
• Mobile and geospatial technologies
• Real-time crisis management
• Measurement and response
• Correlating data
• Opportunistic sensing
• Real-time infrastructure
• Sense-making and context awareness
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
When computing can be done quickly enough, we can change the behavior of humans, of physical systems, and of those physical systems that involve humans. By capturing the right data, delivering it quickly, and shaping effective responses, real-time systems will have a huge impact on every institution, from commerce to manufacturing to government.
Future real-time systems will very likely be designed and built using black box components by teams spanning organizational boundaries. What exactly will these systems look like? How will they be designed, how will they operate, and how will they be managed? What policy, organizational, strategic, and economic issues will need to be solved?
Real-time control of the smart grid will require decentralized control of a sort that has never been built before. Dealing with real-time crisis management requires fine-grained measuring of the state of systems and their responses to inputs. Piloting systems will contain standard models of normal behavior, but they will be able to react in real time to actual (abnormal) system behavior.
Mobile devices—moving from place to place and making context-specific adjustments to and associations with their environment—push data out to people in real time and become a source of real-time data from and about people and places. Which data will be collected, and how will it be disseminated, routed, classified, and identified in the network? A tempo that matches human absorption of data (neither too slow nor too fast) will need to be developed to make applications and services more effective. In the future, the only time that matters will be real time.
Real-time systems typically conform to an externally defined rate, since they are “in the loop” of some larger system or set of systems. The big issues with real-time systems relate to their role in these loops. At this session, we’ll explore how we can understand their instabilities and build in resilience when simple control theory doesn’t apply.
To work effectively, these new cyberphysical systems must be able to control and react to large-scale physical systems. What will be the best way to integrate digital control of analog systems and couple that with powerful modeling abilities so systems can adapt, change, and learn over time? Once we’re better at managing highly adaptive products, information, and services, we’ll be able to reap the benefits of interoperable business process integration.
UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE, PARIS
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IRCAM (INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET COORDINATION ACOUSTIQUE/MUSIQUE)
July 13, 2011 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE, PARIS
Laboratoire d'Electronique et Electromagnétisme (L2E)
The research goals of the different L2E teams are to design, analyze, and develop devices in a large range of frequencies to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in analog electronics, electromagnetism, and microwaves. Research areas include: micro and nanoelectronics, radio on fiber communication and location systems, bioelectromagnetics, and antennas and remote sensing.
Application areas include those in the biomedical, aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, and telecommunications fields.
The Kastler Brossel Laboratory
This lab concentrates on the fundamental physics of quantum systems; applying quantum physics to the real world. The Lab has 13 research teams that cover a broad area of activity, from fundamental physics to applications in biology and medicine. The laboratory conducts research on cold atoms, optics and quantum information, and studies the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Application areas covered include biology, precise atomic clocks, and medical imaging methods.
Laboratory of Oceanography and Climate (LOCEAN)
Research at LOCEAN is centered around three areas: the dynamic processes at work in ocean circulation, the study of the role of the ocean in the mechanisms that govern change in Earth's climate system, and climate predictability and coupling between ocean processes and biogeochemical cycles.
Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR)
ISIR develops high-level research using multidisciplinary teams of specialists from engineering science, information science, and neuroscience. ISIR concentrates on: assistance to medical interventions and therapeutic design and control systems for interactive surgery and functional rehabilitation; micro and nanomanipulation interfaces and technical manipulation and characterization of biological objects; multimodal interactions with natural and human-robot objects related to various human disabilities; and the simulation and control of motor functions.
IRCAM (INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET COORDINATION ACOUSTIQUE/MUSIQUE)
IRCAM, founded by Pierre Boulez, French composer of contemporary classical music, pianist, and conductor, is one of the world's largest public research centers dedicated to both musical expression and scientific research. IRCAM's primary initiative is to provide a location to welcome and coordinate various scientific points of view on the musical phenomena that can be found in the domains of physics, sound signal processing, computer science, cognitive psychology, and musicology.
In the realm of music and sound, IRCAM is on the cutting edge of scientific and technological innovations. Research is carried out in partnership with several universities and international companies and covers a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines including acoustics, signal processing, computer science (languages, real-time, databases, man-machine interfaces) musicology, and musical cognition. IRCAM's scientific findings are often applied to diverse fields in the industrial world such as cultural industries, telecommunications, computer science, and transportation, and automotive.