ISEP and CISTER will proudly organise the next CPSWeek 2018. The 11th edition of the week long multiple conference event will have more than 700 participants. In Europe, CPSWeek has been conducted before in three major technological hubs in the area of CPS: Stockholm (2010), Berlin (2014) and Vienna (2016). Porto, ISEP and CISTER will be at the centre of the World in Cyber-Physical Systems, with the whole set of opportunities and challenges this will bring to us, to the city and the country. The CPSWeek 2018 will probably be one of the largest and most important IT-related events to ever take place in Porto.

ENABLE-S3 is industry-driven and aspires to substitute today’s cost-intensive verification & validation efforts by more advanced and efficient methods to pave the way for the commercialization of highly automated cyber physical systems (ACPS).
ENABLE-S3 will add important missing verification & validation technology bricks which are required to ensure the dependability (safety and security) of ACPS at affordable costs and will set the basis for future standards in this field. Thus ENABLE-S3 results shall help to enable the market introduction of this new and for Europe’s industry very important technology of automated systems. ENABLE-S3 will, in this way, help the European industry to retain leadership in the strategic field of automated systems due to faster development and test of new products, fewer call-backs and faster follow-up of call-backs with higher quality, which allows to step into and to create new markets. ENABLE-S3 is led by AVL List GmbH, has an overall budget of €64.8 M, and the consortium is formed by 71 partners ranging over 16 different countries.

The second General Assembly meeting of the ENABLE-S3 European project will be hosted by CISTER, in the ISEP premises, and will take place on the upcoming 23rd and 24th of May 2017. The meeting will count with the presence of around 100 participants, including academics and industrialists from key European players, including AVL, Thales, Airbus, Philips, Renault, among many others, as well as researchers from well-known European academic institutions. During the General Assembly meeting, the results of the first year of the project will be analyzed, and the first prototype demonstrations of the various use-cases addressed by the project will also take place.

In ENABLE-S3, CISTER is involved in three of ENABLE-S3’s use cases, namely: Use Case 4 – Traffic Jam Pilot, led by the Portuguese partner GMV Skysoft; Use Case 7 – Touch and Go Assistant, lead by Airbus; and Use Case 13 – Farming, led by TTControl. In these use cases, CISTER researchers bring to the table knowledge and experience on several topics that strongly relate and contribute to the safety and security aspects being tackled by the project, namely, static and dynamic formal verification, vehicle platooning, and real-time scheduling analysis.

CPS Week, the top event on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), is being held this year in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in April. It brings together five leading conferences - the 20th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC’17), the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS’17), the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI’17), the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’17), and the 23rd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS’17) - multiple workshops, tutorials, summits, and various exhibitions from both industry and academia.
CISTER director Eduardo Tovar is involved as the general co-chair of the 8th ACM/IEEE ICCPS, a premier single-track conference for reporting advances in all aspects of cyber-physical systems, including theory, tools, applications, systems, test-beds and field deployments.
Similar to the 22nd IEEE RTAS, CISTER researchers Vincent Nelis and Geoffrey Nelissen once again serve as members of the technical program committee of the top-impact real-time conference, and CISTER researcher Raghuraman Rangarajan serve as a member of the technical program committee of the 8th ACM/IEEE ICCPS.
CISTER researchers Matthias Becker, Borislav Nikolic, Benny Akesson and Vincent Nelis, along with Dakshina Dasari, Moris Behnam and Thomas Nolte, will also present a paper titled “Partitioning and Analysis of the Network-on-Chip on a COTS Many-Core Platform” at RTAS 17.

AED Portugal represents the Aeronautical, Space, Security and Defence industries in Portugal with the objective to provide a single platform for promoting and supporting the competitive development of the sector.

This supercluster brings together the constituting members – the industrial federation of Aeronautic (PEMAS), Space (PROESPAÇO) and Defence (DANOTEC).

AED Portugal is the National Federation of the three sectorial associations for Aeronautics (PEMAS), Space(PROESPAÇO) and Defense (DANOTEC). AED Portugal is a major hub and unique platform for the growth and competitive development of its members. AED Portugal gathers the main stakeholders from three paramount sectors trans-sectorial synergies and high added value, constituting a national super–cluster. To achieve its objectives AED Portugal builds on the historic record, capacities and international connections of the three sectorial associations exploring the complementarities and the synergies behind.

AED Portugal not just represents and defends the interest of its members next to national and EU policy makers, but also disseminates information on funding programs and fosters cooperation and networking at international level. AED Portugal ensures both the cross fertilization between industry and Scientific and Technological players and the visibility of its members facilitating the access to international markets.

As a member, CISTER director Eduardo Tovar participated in the general assembly of AED (and PEMAS) in March. CISTER will also be organizing in September, a one-day workshop to expose and foster the national competences related to avionics. This event at CISTER premises will be articulated with PEMAS and AED.

CISTER researchers Geoffrey Nelissen and Vincent Nelis participated in the PC meeting of the 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2017). The technical program committee meeting was organized in Venice, Italy, on the 18th of March. The conference will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from the 27th to the 30th of June 2017.
ECRTS is the premier European venue for presenting research into the broad area of real-time and embedded systems. Along with RTSS and RTAS, ECRTS ranks as one of the three top international conferences on real-time systems. ECRTS has been in the forefront of the real-time community in introducing innovations such as artefact evaluation; open-access proceedings, etc., into the larger real-time computing community.