Working together to train child welfare workers on the impact of domestic violence on children: A faculty-staff collaborative research project

This presentation will discuss the “Research in Domestic Violence for Child Welfare Trainers and Case Workers collaborative “match” project. This project featured the pairing of a SUNY Buffalo State faculty member with an education specialist from the Institute for Community Health Promotion. Research findings will be shared

Software Engineering Challenges for Investigating Cyber-Physical Incidents

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by the interplay between digital and physical spaces. This characteristic has extended the attack surface that could be exploited by an offender to cause harm. An increasing number of cyber-physical incidents may occur depending on the configuration of the physical and digital spaces and their interplay. Traditional investigation processes are not adequate to investigate these incidents, as they may overlook the extended attack surface resulting from such interplay, leading to relevant evidence being missed and testing flawed hypotheses explaining the incidents. The software engineering research community can contribute to addressing this problem, by deploying existing formalisms to model digital and physical spaces, and using analysis techniques to reason about their interplay and evolution. In this paper, supported by a motivating example, we describe some emerging software engineering challenges to support investigations of cyber-physical incidents. We review and critique existing research proposed to address these challenges, and sketch an initial solution based on a meta-model to represent cyber-physical incidents and a representation of the topology of digital and physical spaces that supports reasoning about their interplay

Federated Embedded Systems – a review of the literature in related fields

This report is concerned with the vision of smart interconnected objects, a vision that has attracted much attention lately. In this paper, embedded, interconnected, open, and heterogeneous control systems are in focus, formally referred to as Federated Embedded Systems. To place FES into a context, a review of some related research directions is presented. This review includes such concepts as systems of systems, cyber-physical systems, ubiquitous computing, internet of things, and multi-agent systems. Interestingly, the reviewed fields seem to overlap with each other in an increasing number of ways

Embedded and Smart Systems Education and Laboratory in Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University

2000’li yıllarda başlayan teknolojik gelişmeler hepsi programlanabilen daha akıllı sistemlerin ev, iş ve endüstriyel ortamlardan, enerji üretim ve dağıtım alanlarına kadar çeşitli yerlerde yaygın olarak kullanılacağını göstermektedir. Her türlü akıllı nesneden veya sistemden veri alış verişinin, akıllı ortamlar üstünden akıllı şebekelere bağlanarak, taşınan ve kullanılan veri miktarında kısa sürede çok önemli artış olacağı görülmektedir. Ülkemizde bu alanda yetiştirilecek yani açığı kapatacak bir mühendis için kazandırılacak nitelikler ile teorik ve uygulama bilgi-becerisinin dikkatle belirlenmesi gerekmektedir. İş dünyasının üniversitelerden beklentisi, işyerine alacakları mühendislerin güncel teknolojik bilgi ve uygulama becerisi ile kolay uyum sağlaması, yeni teknolojileri araştırması ve geliştirmesi olmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümündeki ders programı ile üst düzey teknolojiye sahip laboratuarlarda, Akıllı Sistemler, Akıllı Nesneler, Akıllı Ortamlar, Siber Fiziksel Sistemler, Nesnelerin İnterneti, Nesnelerin Webi gibi kavramlarla isimlendirilen teknolojilere ait teori-uygulama bilgi ve becerisinin kazandırıldığı öğretim yapımız açıklanacaktır. In the 2000s, starting with the technological advances, All Programmable and smarter systems for home, business and industrial environments, energy production and distribution so as to use the common areas of the various places. All kinds of smart object or system data is exchanged, over smart environments, connected through smart grids. The amount of data that is used in a short time would be very significant increase can be seen. In our country, will raise the deficit in this area, so an engineer for theoretical and application information-capability with the traits constituting will also carefully determination is required. New graduate engineers with up-to-date technology information and application ability to easily adapt to new technologies, to provide research and development capability would like to be. In this study, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Department of Computer Engineering in courses and senior tech laboratories, Intelligent Systems, Smart Objects, Smart Media, Cyber Physical Systems, the object of the Internet, the object of the Web with concepts such as naming the technologies related to the theory-practice knowledge and skills our teaching is imparted structure will be described

Gbps wireless transceiver for high bandwidth interconnections in distributed cyber physical systems

In Cyber Physical Systems there is a growing use of high speed sensors like photo and video camera, radio and light detection and ranging (Radar/Lidar) sensors. Hence Cyber Physical Systems can benefit from the high communication data rate, several Gbps, that can be provided by mm-wave wireless transceivers. At such high frequency the wavelength is few mm and hence the whole transciever including the antenna can be integrated in a single chip. To this aim this paper presents the design of 60 GHz transciever architecture to ensure connection distances up to 10 m and data rate up to 4 Gbps. At 60 GHz there are more than 7 GHz of unlicensed bandwidth (available for free for development of new services). By using a CMOS SOI technology RF, analog and digital baseband circuitry can be integrated in the same chip minimizing noise coupling. Even the antenna is integrated on chip reducing cost and size vs. classic off-chip antenna solutions. Therefore the proposed transciever can enable at physical layer the implementation of low cost nodes for a Cyber Physical System with data rates of several Gbps and with a communication distance suitable for home/office scenarios, or on-board vehicles such as cars, trains, ships, airplanes

From the Internet of Things to Cyber-Physical Systems: The Holonic Perspective

The paper presents a distributed model for implementing Cyber-Physical Systems aimed at controlling physical entities through the Internet of Things. The model tames the inherent complexity of the task by a recursive notion of modularity which makes each module both a controller and a controlled entity. Modules are arranged along part-whole tree-like hierarchies which collectively constitute the system. The behaviour of each module is strictly local since it has visibility only on its controlled modules, but not on the module which controls it. Each behaviour can be thus checked locally at design time against safety and liveness formulas, which still hold when component holons are composed into more complex ones, thus contributing, without the need of additional checks, to the overall safety and liveness of the final system

Towards human-centered cyber-physical systems: a modeling approach

In this paper we present a new CPS model that considers humans as holistic beings, where mind and body operate as a whole and characteristics like creativity and empathy emerge. These characteristics influence the way humans interact and collaborate with technical systems. Our vision is to integrate humans as holistic beings within CPS in order to move towards a human-machine symbiosis. This paper outlines a model for human-centered cyber-physical systems (HCPSs) that is based on our holistic system model URANOS. The model integrates human skills and values to make them accessible to the technical system, similarly to the way they are accessible to humans in human-to-human interaction. The goal is to reinforce the human being in his feeling of being in control of his life experience in a world of smart technologies. It could also help to reduce human bio-costs like stress, job fears, etc. The proposed model is illustrated by the case study of smart industrial machines, dedicated machines for smart factories, where we test the human integration through conversation

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE INDONESIAN CONTEXT TOWARD EDUTECH 4.0

Abstract: Edutech or Educational Technology is when the process the study contains technology to facilitating. It means that educational technology is when the technology is the part of education. In the era of 4.0, technology is used for facilitating education systems. The main problem of this study was “What are the challenges that create the educational technological immersion for English language teaching?” and “How teachers can adapt to the Edutech 4.0?”. Therefore, the main objective of this study were to find out there was any significant challanges that create the educational technological immersion for English language teaching and also the way English teachers of SMPN 7 Pangkalpinang adapt to the Edutech 4.0. This study applied Qualitative Design. The Informants of this study were the Headmaster, English teachers and the students at SMPN 7 Pangkalpinang. The data were collected by using observation, interview, and questionnaire. Based on this study, the result showed that the teachers can easily adapted with the Google Suites for Education, all of the teachers are comfortable in using Google Suites for Education as the Edutech but they still find difficulty to inteact with the students. Keywords : Edutech, Google Suites for Education, Teaching English.