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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">                Call for Papers</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 13th – 16th, 2015</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, Seattle, WA, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">        </span><a href="http://www.cpsweek.org/2015" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.cpsweek.org/2015</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Key Dates:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Abstract Registration: October 13th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Submission Deadline:   </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">October 20th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Notification Dates: vary by individual conferences</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Workshop Date: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 13th, 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Main Conference: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 14th</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> – </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 16th, 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are complex engineering systems that rely on the integration of physical, computation, and communication processes to function.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Theories, algorithms, systems and methodologies developed for CPS are the foundations for applications like Internet of Things, industrial internet and automation, smart transportations, smart grids, smart cities, buildings and homes, data centers, health care, well-being and so on. Such systems must be operated safely, dependably, securely, efficiently and in real-time. Advances in this field will have great technical, economic and societal impacts in the near future. Since 2008, CPS Week is the premier forum for academic, industry, and governmental researchers to present latest research results and exchange ideas on all aspects of CPS.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CPS Week 2015 will be held in the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington, USA.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The event features four major collocated conferences:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* HSCC:  The 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (</span><a href="http://www.hscc-conference.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.hscc-conference.org/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* ICCPS: The 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (</span><a href="http://iccps.acm.org/2015/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://iccps.acm.org/2015/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* IPSN: The 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (</span><a href="http://ipsn.acm.org/2015/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://ipsn.acm.org/2015/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* RTAS: The 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (</span><a href="http://2015.rtas.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://2015.rtas.org/</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In additional to major conferences, CPS Week 2015 will host workshops, tutorials, poster and demo sessions, competition, and PhD forums.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CPS Week conferences call for original research contributions. Please refer to Call for Papers from individual conferences for topics of interests and submission formats. All conferences have the same abstract registration and submission deadlines. Papers will be reviewed by individual conference program committees. Contact conference program committee chairs for any question.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organizers:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* General Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Workshop Chairs: Raghu Ganti (IBM), Dan Work (UIUC)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Demo/Poster Chairs: Andrew Markham (Oxford), Mohammed Shoaib (Microsoft)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* N2Women Forum Chairs: Anna Förster (SUPSI, Switzerland)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Web and Social Media Chair: Ying Lu (Univ. of Nebraska)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Publicity Chairs: Ying Lu (Univ. of Nebraska),</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">                    Ramona Marfievici (Univ. of Trento, Italy),</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">                    Heitor Ramos (UF de Alagoas, Brazil),</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">                    Prasant Misra (Indian Inst. of Science),</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">                    John Koo (Univ. of Hong Kong)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Publication Chair: Lijun Qian (Prairie View A&amp;M)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Finance Chair: Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Registration Chair: Radha Poovendran (U. of Washington)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Local Arrangement Chairs: Michel Goraczko, Arjmand Samuel (Microsoft)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference Chairs:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* HSCC:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    Sriram Sankaranarayanan (Univ. of Colorado), Antoine Girard (IMAG, France)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* ICCPS:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    Michael Branicky (Case Western), Alexandre Bayen (UC Berkeley),</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    Ian Mitchell (UBC, Canada), Xenofon D. Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* IPSN:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    Suman Nath (Microsoft), Anthony Rowe (CMU), Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* RTAS:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">    Rich West (Boston University), James Anderson (UNC)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Steering Committee:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Werner Damm (Univ. of Oldenburg)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Insup Lee (UPenn)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* George J. Pappas (UPenn), Chair</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Raj Rajkumar (CMU)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Sanghyuk Son (DGIST, Korea and UVa)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Jack Stankovic (UVa)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Feng Zhao (Microsoft)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks.</span><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:arial"><div dir="ltr">
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1" face="georgia, serif">Senior Member, Technical Staff                                        |                   : <a href="mailto:prasant.misra@gmail.com" target="_blank">prasant.misra@gmail.com</a>  </font></span></div>
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