Cyber Advancing Research Research Advancing Cyber

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Cyber Advancing Research Research Advancing
Cyber

• Scott F. Midkiff? smidkiff_at_nsf.gov?
  703-292-8339 National Science
  FoundationDirectorate for EngineeringElectrical,
  Communications and Cyber Systems Division

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Cyber Systems

• Cyber implies the integration of
• Computation,
• Communication, and
• Algorithms and control
• Cyber is
• More than just high-performance or embedded
  computing
• More than just networking
• More than just software

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Cyber Systems Research

• High-Performance Computing
• Grid Computing
• Visualization
• Virtual Organizations,

Science andEngineeringResearch
CyberSystems

• Next-generation Computing and Communication
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Integrated Systems

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NSF Support for Cyber Systems(from an ECCS
Perspective)
Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
Enabling FutureCyber Systems
Cyber-PhysicalSystems (CPS)

• Utilizing state-of-the art computing systems
• Systems coupled with middleware and innovative
  algorithms
• Virtual organizations

• Integration of cyber systems and physical systems
  and the physical environment
• Foundations Methods and tools Components,
  substrates and systems

• Closing the gap between advances in devices and
  components and their application in systems

Scope

• Core program support for modeling and simulation
• Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
• Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering
  through Petascale Simulations and Analysis
  (PetaApps)
• Cyberinfrastructure Experiences for Graduate
  Students (CIEG)
• Engineering Virtual Organizations (EVO)

• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS)
  core program
• Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) core
  program

• Multicore Chip Design and Architecture (MCDA)
• Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS)
  core program
• Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) core
  programs
• Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies

ECCS and Cross-cutting Support
Cyber Enabling Research
Research Enabling Cyber
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Agenda

• Cyber Advancing Research
• Research Advancing Cyber

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Agenda

• Cyber Advancing Research
• Engineering Virtual Organizations
• Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation
• PetaApps
• Research Advancing Cyber

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Engineering Virtual Organizations

• Early VOs supported by the Directorate for
  Engineering
• George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake
  Engineering Simulation (http//www.nees.org/)
• WATERS network (http//www.watersnet.org/)
• National Nanofabrication Users Network
  (http//www.nnin.org/)
• Network for Computational Nanotechnology
  (http//www.ncn.purdue.edu/) and its nanoHUB.org
  portal
• Engineering Virtual Organization (EVO) program
• Two-year 190,000 seed grants in fiscal year 2007
• 14 new engineering-Focused virtual organizations
• EVO projects address establishment, conceptual
  design, prototype development, and full-scale
  planning of virtual organizations for engineering
  communities

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EVOs Managed by ECCS

• CIML Computational Intelligence and Machine
  Learning - http//www.cimlcommunity.org (PI
  Zurada, Louisville)
• Coupling fragmented data, software, and other
  resources includes discussion tools
• Human-Robot Interaction Research -
  http//www.hri-metrics.org (PI Hansen,
  Carnegie-Mellon)
• Emphasis on metrics of the interactions
• Data repository coupled with high-dimensional
  analysis tools

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Other EVOs

• AFRESH Atomic-scale Friction Research -
  http//nsfafresh.org (PI Sinnott, Florida)
• Tribology, adhesion, and wear
• User-driven cyberinfrastructure for sharing,
  generating, archiving, linking and discussing
  data, tools, events, information, knowledge and
  other content
• Pharmaceutical Engineering pharmaHUB.org (PI
  Reklaitis, Purdue)
• Repository for simulation tools, design decision
  support, education materials
• Builds on an Engineering Research Center
  Structured Organic Particulate Systems and s
  university institute for pharmaceutical education
  
• Cyberinfrastructure for the Heat Transfer
  Community - thermalhub.org (PI Fisher, Purdue)
• Computational research tools, computational
  learning tools, online lectures and tutorials,
  international industries and partnerships,
  databases of experiments and properties,
  community Wiki resource
• Understanding Polymer Dynamics - polyHUB.org (PI
  Edwards, Tennessee)
• Technical focus is polymer processing beyond just
  shape conversion
• Repository for simulation tools, data,
  visualizations

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Other EVOs

• Inundation Science and Engineering Cooperative -
  isec.nacse.org (PI Pancake, Oregon State)
• VO to develop complex, multi-scale models
  addressing the impact of inundation on natural
  and man-made environments
• Support for matchmaking, collaborative education,
  shared data, shared models and computation,
  collaborative projects
• VORTEX-Winds - http//e-windtech.org (PI Ahsan,
  Notre Dame)
• Virtual Organization for Reducing the Toll of
  Extreme Winds on Society
• Zero-incident, Zero-emission Smart Manufacturing
  - http//www.oit.ucla.edu/nsf-evo-2008/ (PI
  Davis, CACHE)
• Hosted by CACHE Corp. (nonprofit educational
  organization, www.cache.org)
• VO for a large university-industry effort in
  smart manufacturing builds on FIATECH
• VO for Combustion Kinetics, VOCK (PI Wang, Univ.
  of Southern California)
• Uses Chemistry Division-sponsored
  Primekinetics.org for accumulation joint
  evaluation of data

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Other EVOs

• EVO for Discrete-event Logistics Systems -
  www.delnet.org (PI Hirleman, Purdue)
• Community lacks shared syntax and semantics and
  lacks a complete system perspective
• Goal is to enable experiments in design and
  control through modeling and simulation for
  education, research, and practice
• VOICED VO for Conceptual Engineering Design -
  rocks-105.sdsc.edu/evo (PI Horstemeyer,
  Mississippi State)
• Tool/data repository, now augmented by NSF award
  CMMI-0826547, Computational Design Tool
  Development for Multilevel Optimization of
  Product-Material Systems Under Uncertainty
• VO for global engineering education -
  globalHUB.org (PI Hirleman, Purdue)
• Focus is global engineering and global
  engineering education
• Sharing best practices and related information

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Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (NSF
08-604)

• Five-year initiative (FY 2009 is the second year)
• All NSF directorates and programmatic offices are
  involved
• Goal is
• to create revolutionary science and engineering
  research outcomes
• made possible by innovation in, or innovative use
  of computational thinking
• with an emphasis on bold, multidisciplinary
  activities

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Three CDI Themes

• From Data to Knowledge enhancing human
  cognition and generating new knowledge from a
  wealth of heterogeneous digital data
• Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and
  Social Systems deriving fundamental insights on
  systems comprising multiple interacting elements
   and
• Building Virtual Organizations enhancing
  discovery and innovation by bringing people and
  resources together across institutional,
  geographical and cultural boundaries

• Virtual Organization proposals, like all
  proposals, need to lead to significant
  contributions in two or more disciplines, such
  as
• VO domain and VO technology
• VO domain and organizational science

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Types of CDI Projects

• CDI defines research modalities
• Project size not measured by dollar amount
• Projects classified by magnitude of effort
• Three types are defined
• Type I (2 PI, 2 GRA)
• Type II (3 PI, 3 GRA, 1 post-doc)
• Type III (center scale)
• Type III (center-scale effort) is not supported
  in FY 2009

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CDI Funding

• All NSF directorates are participating in this
  activity with pooled funds reflected in the
  solicitation and additional funds allocated to
  specific proposals

FY 2008
FY 2009
26M in the solicitation 40M actual awards 72
awards (29 Type I and 43 Type II)
26M in the solicitation More is likely
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Key Dates for CDI

• Preliminary Proposals due
• Type I December 8, 2008
• Type II December 9, 2008
• Full proposals due
• May 20, 2009
• Full proposals by invitation only

Questions? cdi_at_nsf.gov http//www.nsf.gov/fundin
g/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id503163
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PetaApps (NSF 08-592)

• Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering
  through Petascale Simulations and Analysis
  (PetaApps)
• Aims to develop the future simulation and
  analysis tools that can use petascale computing
  to advance the frontiers of scientific and
  engineering research
• Seeks proposals that
• Capitalize on emerging petascale computing
  architectures
• Emphasize implementation and exploitation of
  forefront techniques
• Demonstrate that they have a research problem
  that requires and can exploit petascale computing
  capabilities
• Are from or include junior researchers
• 18M investment for 11 to 16 grants
• Proposals due October 30, 2008

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Agenda

• Cyber Advancing Research
• Research Advancing Cyber
• ECCS Core Programs
• Cyber-Physical Systems

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Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
(ECCS) Division
Division Director Lawrence Goldberg (Acting)
Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks
Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems
Optoelectronics Nano-photonics
Ultrafast/Extreme Ultra-Violet Technologies Eric
Johnson Micro/Nanoelectronics NEMS/ MEMS
Bioelectronics Sensors Rajinder
Khosla Micro/Nanoelectronics Molecular, Spin,
and Organic Electronics Micromagnetics Power
Electronics Pradeep Fulay Microwave Photonics
MMIC Millimeter, Sub-millimeter and Terahertz
Frequency Devices and Components Usha Varshney
Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control
Sensing and Imaging Networks Systems Theory
Telerobotics Radhakisan Baheti Power and Energy
Systems and Networks and their Inter-dependencies
Power Drives Renewable/Alternative Energy
Sources Dagmar Niebur Adaptive Dynamic
Programming Quantum and Molecular Modeling and
Simulations Neuromorphic Engineering Paul Werbos
RF and Optical Wireless and Hybrid Communications
Systems Inter and Intra-chip Communications
Mixed Signals Andreas Weisshaar Micro and Nano
Systems Systems-on-a-chip System-in-a-Package
Diagnostic and Implantable Systems Yogesh
Gianchandani Cyber Systems Signal
Processing Scott Midkiff
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Unsolicited Proposals for ECCS

• ECCS core programs use program descriptions
• Unsolicited proposals
• Description of scope and example topics, but
  seeking the best ideas from the research
  community
• Compared to a solicitation which can be much more
  specific in scope and requirements
• Two windows for submission of unsolicited
  proposals each year
• September 7-October 7
• January 7-February 7

http//www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?orgECCS
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Grant Opportunities for AcademicLiaison with
Industry (GOALI)

• GOALI mechanisms for building long-term
  relationships
• Faculty and Students in industry
• Industry Scientists and Engineers in Academe
• Industry-University Collaborative Research
  Projects
• Industry-university collaborative research
  projects
• Industry co-PI must present a real industry
  commitment
• Detailed plan for industry-university
  collaboration, with a division of research tasks
• Industry cost-sharing and technological relevance
  are essential evaluation criteria
• Proprietary issues agreement on intellectual
  property is required
• Dissemination plan

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What are Cyber-Physical Systems?

• Cyber computation, communication, and control
  that are discrete, logical, and switched
• Physical natural and human-made systems
  governed by the laws of physics and operating in
  continuous time
• Cyber-Physical Systems systems in which the
  cyber and physical systems are tightly integrated
  at all scales and levels
• Change from cyber merely appliquéd on physical
• Change from physical with off-the-shelf commodity
  computing as parts mindset
• Change from ad hoc to grounded, assured
  development

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A Few Example Opportunities
Transportation

• Faster and more energy efficient aircraft
• Improved use of airspace
• Safer, more efficient cars

Energy and Industrial Automation

• Homes and offices that are more energy efficient
  and cheaper to operate
• Distributed micro-generation for the grid

Healthcare and Biomedical

• Increased use of effective in-home care
• More capable devices for diagnosis
• New internal and external prosthetics

Critical Infrastructure

• More reliable and efficient power grid
• Highways that allow denser traffic with increased
  safety

Cyber-Physical Systems Executive Summary, CPS
Steering Group, March 6, 2008 (available at
http//varma.ece.cmu.edu/summit/)
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CPS Research Gaps
Cyber
Physical
Discrete Mathematics
Continuous Mathematics

• Research Gaps
• Composition
• Design automation
• System integration
• Certification
• Security and privacy
• Education and work force

SynchronousProcedures
AsynchronousEvents
Sequences
Time
Laws of Physics
Computing Abstractions
Computer Science
Domain Engineering


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CPS A National Research Priority

• Eight priority areas, with four designated as
  having the highest priority
• Network and Information Technology (NIT) Systems
  Connected with the Physical World
• Software
• Digital Data
• Networking
• NIT systems connected with the physical world
  (cyber-physical systems)
• Essential to the effective operation of U.S.
  defense and intelligence systems and critical
  infrastructures
• At the core of human-scale structures and
  large-scale civilian applications

Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (PCAST), Computational Science
America's Competitiveness Leadership Under
Challenge Information Technology RD in a
Competitive World, August 2007.
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CPS Solicitation (NSF 08-611)

• Joint initiative of Directorate for Computer and
  Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and
  Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
• Three themes
• Three types of proposals
• Proposal deadline is February 27, 2009

Contacts Helen Gill (CISE/CNS),
hgill_at_nsf.govScott Midkiff (ENG/ECCS),
smidkiff_at_nsf.gov http//www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_s
umm.jsp?pims_id503286
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Type of CPS Projects

• Small Projects individual or small-team efforts
  that focus on one or more of the three defined
  CPS themes (up to 200,000/year for up to three
  years)
• Medium Projects span one or more CPS themes and
  may include one or more PIs and a research team
  of students and/or post-docs (up to 500,000/year
  for up to three years)
• Large Projects multi-investigator projects
  addressing a coherent set of research issues that
  cut across multiple themes or that explore a
  particular theme in great depth (up to
  1,000,000/year for up to five years)
• Possible CPS-Virtual Organization

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Three CPS Themes

• Foundations develop new scientific and
  engineering principles, algorithms, models, and
  theories for the analysis and design of
  cyber-physical systems
• Research on Methods and Tools bridge the gaps
  between approaches to the cyber and physical
  elements of systems through innovations such as
  novel support for multiple views, new programming
  languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and
  formally verifying properties of complex
  integrations of cyber and physical resources
• Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems
  new hardware and software infrastructure and
  platforms and engineered systems motivated by
  grand challenge applications

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Where to go from here

• Read solicitations
• Talk to program directors about program scope,
  project scale, etc.
• Collaborate within a department across campus
  across the country across the world
• Develop proposals around your very best ideas
• Be fully responsive to NSF review criteria
  intellectual merit and broader impact as well
  as additional criteria that may exist
• Volunteer as a panelist

http//www.nsf.gov/