NSF Cyber-Physical Systems

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503286&org=CISE&from=home

Drs. Gill and Midkiff will be assisted by the following CISE-ENG  
Program Officer team:

    * Dr. Kishan Baheti, ENG, email: rbaheti () nsf gov, telephone:  
(703) 292-8339
    * Dr. Michael Branicky, CISE, email: mbranick () nsf gov, telephone:  
(703) 292-8950;
    * Dr. Paul Oh, CISE, email: poh () nsf gov, telephone: (703) 292-8930;
    * Dr. Usha Varshney, ENG, email: uvarshne () nsf gov, telephone:  
(703) 292-8339; and
    * Dr. Lenore Zuck, CISE, email: lzuck () nsf gov, telephone: (703)  
292-8910.

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation  08-611

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Deadline Date :   February 27, 2009
        Last Friday in February, Annually Thereafter

SYNOPSIS

The term cyber-physical systems refers to the tight conjoining of and  
coordination between computational and physical resources.  We  
envision that the cyber-physical systems of tomorrow will far exceed  
those of today in terms of adaptability, autonomy, efficiency,  
functionality, reliability, safety, and usability.  Research advances  
in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems  
that respond more quickly (e.g., autonomous collision avoidance), are  
more precise (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-tolerance manufacturing),  
work in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., autonomous  
systems for search and rescue, firefighting, and exploration), provide  
large-scale, distributed coordination (e.g., automated traffic  
control), are highly efficient (e.g., zero-net energy buildings),  
augment human capabilities, and enhance societal wellbeing (e.g.,  
assistive technologies and ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and  
delivery).

Congruent with the recommendations in the August 2007 report of the  
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST),  
Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a  
Competitive World, NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information  
Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering (ENG) are spear-heading  
the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program because of its scientific and  
technological importance as well as its potential impact on grand  
challenges in a number of sectors critical to U.S. security and  
competitiveness, including aerospace, automotive, chemical production,  
civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, materials and  
transportation.  By abstracting from the particulars of specific  
applications in these domains, the CPS program aims to reveal cross- 
cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that  
underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all  
application sectors.  The CPS program will also support the  
development of methods and tools as well as hardware and software  
components, run-time substrates, and systems based upon these  
principles to expedite and accelerate the realization of cyber- 
physical systems in a wide range of applications.  Furthermore, the  
program aims to create a new research and education community  
committed to the study and application of cyber-physical system  
innovations, through the establishment of a CPS Virtual Organization  
(CPS-VO) and regular PI meetings.

The CPS program is seeking proposals that address research challenges  
in three CPS themes:  Foundations; Methods and Tools; and Components,  
Run-time Substrates, and Systems.  Foundations research will develop  
new scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models, and  
theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems.  
Research on Methods and Tools will 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.  The third CPS  
theme concerns new hardware and software Components, Run-time  
Substrates (infrastructure and platforms), and (engineered) Systems  
motivated by grand challenge applications.

Three sizes of research and education projects will be considered:

    * Small Projects are individual or small-team efforts that focus  
on one or more of the three defined CPS themes. Funding for Small  
Projects will be provided at levels of up to $200,000/year for up to  
three years.
    * Medium Projects also span one or more CPS themes and may  
include one or more PIs and a research team of students and/or  
postdocs.  Funding for Medium Projects will be provided at levels up  
to $500,000/year for up to three years.
    * Large Projects are multi-investigator projects involving teams  
of researchers and their students and/or postdocs representing the  
same or multiple disciplines in computer science, engineering, and  
physical application domains, who together address a coherent set of  
research issues that either cut across multiple CPS themes or that  
explore in great depth a particular theme.  Funding for Large Projects  
will be provided at levels up to $1,000,000/year for up to five years.

In addition, NSF will consider proposals to establish a CPS-VO.  Only  
one award will be made, at annual levels of up to $200,000 for up to  
five years.  It is expected that more modest levels of funding will be  
provided in the first year or two of this award.

A more complete description of the CPS program is provided in Section  
II. Program Description of this solicitation.


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