Infrastrutuctures and a highly connected society (IHCS)
Coordinator: Jorge Miguel Nunes Santos Cabral
This TL addresses the scientific challenges posed by an integrated highly connected and digital society. Autonomous vehicles and IoT are examples of deployments allowed by the availability of high amounts of data, faster transmission rates and low latency, and high computation power. Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) establish an interdependency between the physical and the cyber worlds through the exchange of data, which may require near real-time interactions. Digitalization makes processes more efficient and can replicate the real world (digital twins) proving additional data and analyses of several simulation scenarios. This TL will tackle the challenges of developing a robust data infrastructure (from computation to communications) for a digital and highly connected society, of deploying reliable and ubiquitous CPS for a connected future, and of implementing a digital approach for a more efficient and fair society.
SO1 – Paving the way for a digital and highly connected society: advanced computation infrastructures
Data infrastructures are a pillar for the implementation of a digital and highly connected society. SO1 will explore the synergies between high performance computing, cloud computing and big data and extreme scale data infrastructures. The development of HPC systems addresses the topics of: design of advanced computation systems; systems and data reliability; data security, cryptography and privacy; resilient and fault tolerant systems; virtualization and resources management; reliable and high performance computation; operating systems and middleware; quantum computation and communications; seamless connect
SO2 – Towards an ubiquitous connected future, unleashing the potential of CPS
CPS are co-engineered interacting networks of physical and computational elements belonging to a common system, being enabler technologies for connected products and product-systems. Typically, they integrate physical edge device(s) with communications and data exchange capabilities, and a computational platform integrating algorithms and software, that interoperate at different spatial and temporal scales with a multitude of interfaces and boundaries.
SO3 – A digital transformation for a more efficient and fair society
Digital transformation (DT) is “a process that aims to improve an entity by triggering significant changes to its properties through combinations of information, computing, communication, and connectivity technologies”. Digital twins are digital replicas of physical entities that provide additional data about their status. Modelling of physical behaviours allows the prediction and optimization of system responses throughout its life cycle. The connection between physical and virtual models provides a way of controlling and improving the response of physical entities, an enhanced and safer user experience and product efficiency. DT also requires a strong interaction between the digital twin, CPS/IoT systems, big data issues
