High Confidence Software and Systems Coordinating Group (HCSS CG)
Overview
The HCSS CG coordinates the activities of the High Confidence Software and Systems Program Component Area (PCA).
HCSS R&D supports development of scientific foundations and innovative and enabling software and hardware technologies for the engineering, verification and validation, assurance, and certification of complex, networked, distributed computing systems and cyber-physical (IT-enabled) systems (CPS). The goal is to enable seamless, fully synergistic integration of computational intelligence, communication, control, sensing, actuation, and adaptation with physical devices and information processes to routinely realize high-confidence, optimally performing systems that are essential for effectively operating life-, safety-, security-, and mission-critical applications. These systems must be capable of interacting correctly, safely, and securely with humans and the physical world in changing environments and unforeseen conditions. In many cases, they must be certifiably dependable. The vision is to realize dependable systems that are more precise and highly efficient; respond more quickly; work in dangerous or inaccessible environments; provide large-scale, distributed coordination; augment human capabilities; and enhance societal quality of life. New science and technology are needed to build these systems with computing, communication, information, and control pervasively embedded at all levels, thus enabling entirely new generations of engineering designs that can enhance U.S, competitiveness across economic and industrial sectors.
HCSS Events
March 13-14, 2012Foundations for Innovation in CPS R&D needs workshop, Hyatt-Regency O'Hare - http://events.energetics.com/NIST-CPSWorkshop/index.html
March 20-22, 2012
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'12) Workshop focusing on CPS, UMD College Park MD - http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/permis2012.cfm
April 16-19, 2012
CPS Week 2012 - Beijing, China http://www.rtas.org
April 23-24, 2012
Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems workshop, NIST Gaithersburg - http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/cps-workshop/NIST_CPS-cybersecurity-Call-for-Abstracts-4-workshop.pdf (NIST Information Technology Lab)
May 2012
12th Annual HCSS Conference, Annapolis, MD.
September 24-28, 2012
2012 IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication (ISPCS), San Francisco, CA, http://www.ispcs.org
HCSS Reports and Publications
High-Confidence Medical Devices: Cyber-Physical Systems for 21st Century Health Care (February 2009)
http://www.nitrd.gov/About/MedDevice-FINAL1-web.pdf
CPS_OSTP_Response - Winning the Future
HCSS related Presentations
Software Certification Consortium by Dr. Alan Wassyng
Academic Community’s Views on Research Contributions to NextGen by Prof. Hamsa Balakrishnan and Prof. Eric Feron
Innovation and U.S. based Manufacturing by Dr. Sridhar Kota OSTP
Towards a Safe & Reliable Operation of Cyber Physical Systems by Ken Eizenga AFRL
Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense by Dr. William Scherlis (Chair of the National Academies report)
