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SUMMARY:Safe Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Dose-based Adaptive Radiotherapy
DESCRIPTION:TECoSA industrial PhD student Kenneth Lau (Elekta)\, will present his work so far as a “30% seminar”.  All with an interest in the topic are welcome to join\, via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/620751730409) or in real life on KTH Campus (Teknikringen 14\, room 304\, floor 3).  \nABSTRACT: External beam radiotherapy treats tumors using radiation beams from outside the patient’s body. However\, radiation to healthy tissues can cause side effects. Current treatment planning methods use static patient images to modulate radiation beams and do not account for stochastic patient motions\, such as heartbeat and breathing. This can lead to discrepancies between the plan and actual radiation delivery. MR-Linac is a recent breakthrough that allows us to visualize a patient’s anatomy in real-time. However\, traditional dose-based adaptative radiotherapy methods are too slow to compute in real-time. We propose to use reinforcement learning for real-time dose-based adaptive radiotherapy.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/safe-reinforcement-learning-for-real-time-dose-based-adaptive-radiotherapy/
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: An Approach to Multi-Agent Planning from Spatio-Temporal Specifications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Georg Schupp\, TECoSA PhD\nLocation: KTH Campus (Teknikringen 14\, room 304)\nZoom link and sign-up link circulated to members\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT:  When deploying autonomous robots into the real world\, we desire for them to be safe and to work as intended. One increasingly popular way to approach this challenging problem is through a formal methods framework\, which combines two great advantages: \n(i) The ability to rigorously describe various involved tasks and constraints on the robot’s behavior through temporal logics\, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL); and \n(ii) Generic algorithms to compute plans that are correct by design\, i.e. provably satisfy the logic formula. \nDirectly applying techniques from formal methods to multi-agent task planning problems poses several challenges and confronts the designer of such problem solving algorithms with several key design decisions. In this talk\, we explore how to model computational and human actors  coexisting in a shared environment\, each with their own capabilities and goals. We present a unified framework that computes minimal assumptions on the behaviour of human actors and robots and communicates them as least-limiting advisers. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-an-approach-to-multi-agent-planning-from-spatio-temporal-specifications/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: “An Emulation-Based Performance Evaluation Methodology for Edge Computing and Latency Sensitive Applications”
DESCRIPTION:TECoSA PhD student Manuel Olguin will defend his thesis at KTH Campus (U61).  All with an interest in this topic are welcome to attend. \nABSTRACT:  Cloud Computing has greatly impacted our daily lives by providing global accessibility and virtually unlimited scalability. However\, its centralized architecture prioritizing availability and scale has limitations for real-time processing and low-latency applications like Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) and mobile eXtended Reality (XR). Edge Computing is emerging as a solution to these limitations by bringing computation closer to the network edge\, enabling real-time decision making. A key challenge to mass deployment of Edge Computing infrastructure relates to the complexity of evaluation the performance of these systems\, which stems from the tight interaction of network and compute. This dissertation addresses this challenge by introducing a methodological approach for studying trade-offs in latency-sensitive applications deployed on Edge Computing which involves emulating the client-side workload while retaining the rest of the system. This maintains the realism of network and compute effects\, offering advantages in efficiency with respect to fully experimental approaches and capturing complex factors that are challenging to model analytically or in simulations. \nFurthermore\, this dissertation explores the implications of this methodology on the potential for optimization in Edge Computing deployments\, in particular with respect to improved accuracy in the emulation. In that context\, the dissertation provides a realistic model of human timings for a specific class of Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications which is combined with a mathematical framework for the optimization of sampling systems. The results show that the introduced methodology improves efficiency\, repeatability\, and replicability compared to existing methods. By integrating workload components into the emulated software domain\, it reduces complexity while considering the complex effects of network and compute factors. The dissertation emphasizes the importance of incorporating enhanced realism in client-side emulation\, which enables the implementation of optimization approaches that would otherwise be infeasible\, and further highlights the significance of human behavior in addition to system-related metrics in the context of MAR\, a killer use-case for Edge Computing. \nDetails of the panel are shown below: \nPrincipal Supervisor: Professor James Gross\nDefense Chair: Professor Mats Bengtsson\nOpponent: Associate Professor Yu Xiao\, Aalto University\, Esbo\, Finland \nMembers of the Grading Committee:\nProfessor Ana Aguiar\, Universidade do Porto\, Portugal\nProfessor Per Gunningberg\, Uppsala University\, Sweden\nProfessor Klaus Wehrle\, RWTH Aachen University\, Germany
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/phd-defense-an-emulation-based-performance-evaluation-methodology-for-edge-computing-and-latency-sensitive-applications/
CATEGORIES:PhD defense
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230613T160000
DTSTAMP:20230224T112436Z
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SUMMARY:Archimedes Stockholm workshop: Integrating systems engineering into university education and establishing it in academia
DESCRIPTION:Launched in 2022\, the Archimedes Initiative is a new collaboration between international Systems Engineering Research Centres\, involving SERC\, ESI/TNO\, DLR (represented by its Institute for SE and future mobility) and KTH (represented by TECoSA and ICES). \nYou can read more about the Archimedes Initiative in the INCOSE INSIGHT Magazine Dec. 2022 issue. \nIn June 2023\, KTH (TECoSA in collaboration with Digital Futures) is hosting a hybrid workshop “Integrating systems engineering into university education and establishing it in academia”.  All with an interest in this topic are welcome to join.  An overview of the agenda is given below\, and you can read more (and register) via the Digital Futures event page: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/archimedes-stockholm-workshop-13-june/ \n  \nPRELIMINARY AGENDA \n9:00 – 10:15\nWelcome and workshop introduction by Martin Törngren\, KTH\nArchimedes introduction by Martin Törngren KTH\, Wouter Leibbrandt ESI\, and Dinesh Verma SERC\nThe Future of Systems Engineering/Incose by Tom Strandberg\, CAG Syntell\nHuman Systems Integration by Pernilla Ulfvengren\, KTH \n10:15-10:40  Coffee break & mingle \n10:40-12:00\nIndustrial needs with representative talks from Swedish Industry incl sustainability concerns by Tor Ericsson\, AFRY and Anna Pernestål\, Skogforsk (prev. Scania and KTH)\nEducational (best) practices to integrate SE into engineering education by Bill Shepherd\, Stevens Institue of Technology\nUniversity management view on education and systems engineering by Joakim Lilliesköld\, KTH \n12:00-13:00  LUNCH \n13:00-14:30  Group work sessions: How to introduce SE at Universities and in engineering education – incl. coffee break \n14:30-15:30  Plenary summaries from groups and concluding discussion \n15:30-16:00 Next steps
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/archimedes-stockholm-workshop-integrating-systems-engineering-into-university-education-and-establishing-it-in-academia/
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SUMMARY:12th Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 12th Quarterly Meeting takes place on Thursday 8 June at KTH! \nThe focus will be the inaugaration of the testbeds\, plus more news of the new projects and posters from the TECoSA PhDs. \nAgenda and details will be sent by email to all members.  RSVP by 1 June!
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/12th-quarterly-meeting/
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Computation offloading in Edge and cloud environment: Survey\, taxonomy\, applications and open challenges
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur June seminar is with Ali Balador\, senior researcher and project manager at Ericsson Research.\nThe Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267. \nABSTRACT:  With the rapid development in the area of Internet of Things (IoT)\, the number of delay-sensitive and computationally intensive IoT applications has drastically increased recently. The resource-constrained nature of the IoT devices\, different characteristics of IoT tasks such as delay sensitivity\, and heterogeneity of the edge cloud servers make the task offloading problem an important challenge in the edge cloud continuum. Offloading can be defined as a mechanism to move the processing or computation from one device to another with more suitable capabilities. The main goal is to move resource-intensive tasks from a device with limited resources to an edge server or cloud server to achieve performance objectives\, such as reducing overall computation time\, minimizing network resources usage\, maximizing battery life. \nOffloading is a flexible mechanism whose implementation depends on use cases or situations. For this reason\, it is very important to study different application domains and use cases to find out which use cases are the most promising and can get benefit of offloading. In this presentation\, I will explore different application domains and use cases and explain why offloading is beneficial. I will also show an offloading taxonomy that helps to understand that flexibility and identify which are the most relevant offloading configurations for different application domains and use cases. \nOne example could be offloading to support time-critical industrial use cases. However\, to ensure deterministic performance and support timing predictability of real-time applications that utilize the edge-cloud continuum\, more enhancements are required in the computation domain and communication domain. In this case\, I will present our initial plans for our new VINNOVA project\, which is called AORTA. We will develop technologies that allow offloading of real-time services and functionality to the edge and cloud. We will build upon recent advances in 5G and cloud and networking technologies\, as well as cutting-edge research results. The AORTA framework will support a fluid compute model where functionality will be dynamically deployed locally\, at the edge\, or in the cloud and support integration and real-time performance irrespective of where they execute. \nBIO:  Dr. Ali Balador graduated in computer science at the Polytechnic University of Valencia\, where he also achieved his Phd on the topic of wireless communication for vehicular environments in 2016. He held the role of Assistant Professor at Mälardalen University for 5 years. He was a visiting researcher at University of Bologna in Italy\, Halmstad University in Sweden\, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan. \nAli has a background in a number of industries\, such as automotive\, railway\, healthcare\, and manufacturing but has spent most of his time focusing on the automotive sector\, working in research and development projects where he acted as main technical coordinator or WP leader. He spent 6 years at RISE Research Institute of Sweden where\, he focused on topics such as edge and cloud computing and the combination with artificial intelligence. \nIn April 2022\, he joined Ericsson Research in Sweden in the role of senior researcher and project manager. His own personal research interests include wireless networks\, distributed systems\, cloud and edge computing\, and security & privacy.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-computation-offloading-in-edge-and-cloud-environment-survey-taxonomy-applications-and-open-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230526T120000
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DTSTAMP:20230517T104219Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Efficient Monte Carlo Inference for Probabilistic Programming Languages
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Daniel Lundén\, TECoSA postdoc\nLocation: Gustaf Dahlander (floor 3\, Teknikringen 31\, KTH Campus)\nZoom link and sign-up link circulated to members\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT: Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) allow users to express statistical inference problems that the PPL implementation then\, ideally\, solves automatically. In particular\, PPL users can focus on encoding their inference problems\, and need not concern themselves with the intricacies of inference. In the last decade\, PPL-related research have seen a dramatic increase\, with applications in research fields such as evolutionary biology\, epidemiology\, cognitive science\, motion forecasting\, computer vision\, database cleaning\, and inverse graphics. \nIn this seminar\, Daniel will give an introduction to PPLs\, their applications\, and my research. His research focuses on efficient implementations of Monte Carlo inference algorithms as part of PPL compilers\, with a particular interest in programming language theory\, compilers\, and static program analysis. \nYou can read more about Daniel’s research at: https://dlunde.github.io/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-efficient-monte-carlo-inference-for-probabilistic-programming-languages/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230525
DTSTAMP:20230224T105523Z
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SUMMARY:Nordic Systems Engineering Tour\, Spring 2023
DESCRIPTION:Organised by the 5 Nordic Chapters of INCOSE – Norway\, Denmark\, Sweden\, Finland and Germany.\nThe  programme is being developed and will be published at \nhttps://www.nordic-systems-engineering-tour.com/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/nordic-systems-engineering-tour-spring-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230504T150000
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DTSTAMP:20230428T094253Z
CREATED:20230221T091640Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Cloud Robotics for Data-Driven Robotic Manipulation Research at Scale
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur May seminar is with Florian Pokorny\, Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning here at KTH. \n23.04.28 update: Please note that this event will take place in Zoom only: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267 (not in Digital Futures Cafeteria as previously announced).\nABSTRACT: In this talk\, Dr Pokorny will discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding large scale experimentation for machine learning driven robotic manipulation research. While it is accepted wisdom that the performance of state of the art machine learning algorithms in fields like language modelling and computer vision scales directly with available input data\, compute and model size\, many open questions regarding these scaling laws remain when it comes to physical interactions of robotic systems with the world\, where the complexity of data-driven learning may depend heavily on the physical characteristics of a given robotic manipulation task.  He will discuss some of his group’s research in this direction\, as well as the development of a new open source robotic system which will allow large scale execution of robotic experiments in a massively parallelized manner using a Cloud Robotics approach. \nBIO: Dr Pokorny’s current research focuses on two main directions: 1) machine learning algorithms with a geometric or topological flavour or which utilize insights about geometry in the context of other methods such as deep learning and 2) machine learning methods that are tailored for robotic manipulation or motion planning and which incorporate available domain knowledge and information about physics and configuration space geometry in order to be data efficient.  You can read more on his homepage: https://www.csc.kth.se/~fpokorny/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-cloud-robotics-for-data-driven-robotic-manipulation-research-at-scale/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230503T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230503T120000
DTSTAMP:20230403T132914Z
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SUMMARY:Digitalized Industry workshop: Exploring the Possibilities of Industry 5.0
DESCRIPTION:For full details\, and to register\, please see the Digital Futures event page.\nhttps://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/digitalized-industry-workshop-exploring-the-possibilities-of-industry-5-0/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/digitalized-industry-workshop-exploring-the-possibilities-of-industry-5-0/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230428T140000
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DTSTAMP:20230330T111735Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Collaborative Collision Avoidance of Connected Vehicles Using ADMM with PI-Regulated Lagrangian Multipliers
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Kaige Tan\, TECoSA PhD student\nLocation:  Gladan\, Brinellvägen 85 (KTH Campus)\nZoom link: circulated to members (contact Vicki for more info)\nRegister for IRL participation: email vickid@kth.se  by kl.15 on Monday 24 April \n\nABSTRACT: The decentralized approach is popular for the collaborative collision avoidance of connected vehicles in many scenarios. By modeling the task as a collaborative optimal control problem\, Lagrangian methods are widely used to decouple the constraints and enable the decentralized solution. However\, potential constraint-violating behavior will lead to oscillations during the Lagrangian update\, resulting in more iterations and lower real-time efficiency. \nExisting methods generally neither address this shortcoming\, nor explore the Lagrangian update mechanism. This study takes a control perspective\, and solves this collaborative optimal control problem based on an extension of the Alternating Directions Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm by performing the iteration update with a Proportional-Integral- (PI-) regulated controller. The link between the Lagrangian optimization and the PI controller improves the convergence performance during iterations. Simulation results in traffic intersection scenarios demonstrate the advantage of the proposed approach. The preliminary results and future work on its real-time implementation on the 5G testbed will also be discussed.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-collaborative-collision-avoidance-of-connected-vehicles-using-admm-with-pi-regulated-lagrangian-multipliers/
CATEGORIES:Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230419T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230419T110000
DTSTAMP:20230413T115013Z
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SUMMARY:MedTechLabs Seminar: Strategies and tactics for protecting digital IP such as AI Applications
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to this seminar focusing on life science technologies.  The speakers will analyze and present strategies for scientists to accelerate their ability to find and protect digital inventions. It will include tactics and practical tips on patenting or other ways to extract business opportunities from science related to digital technologies. \nThe seminar will have a focus on digital life sciences but can be beneficial for digital applications in any technical field. \nSpeakers: Måns Marklund (Cascelotte) and Michael Kitzler (Rouse)\nModerator: Niclas Roxhed\, Director MedTechLabs and associate professor at KTH\nHybrid event: participants can choose to join in real life at the Karolinksa Institute (KI\, Nobels väg 12B\, 171 65 Solna)\, or via video-link (details will be circulated to those who register). \nClick here to register. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/medtechlabs-seminar-strategies-and-tactics-for-protecting-digital-ip-such-as-ai-applications/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230412T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230412T150000
DTSTAMP:20230411T121520Z
CREATED:20230328T112214Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled (TinyDSF: Bootstrapping Skills for Milirobots from First Principles)
DESCRIPTION:23.04.11: This event is postponed  – new date to follow.\n****************************************************************************** \nInvited talk by Markus Kobelrausch\, TU Vienna\nWith a volume of less than 10 cm³ Milirobots are highly resource constrained agents. It is thus challenging to strike the right balance between efficiency of operation and flexibility to adapt to a new environment and tackle new tasks. \nTiny Developmental Skill Framework (TinyDSF) aims to provide a generic set of techniques for Milirobots\, that minimizes the set of hardwired\, innate skills and maximizes the space of environments and tasks that the Milirobot can eventually and autonomously adapt to. \nThis talk will present the bootstrapping of skills in TinyDSF. At the starting point\, the Milirobot comes with built-in knowledge of basic physical laws and geometric relations of the 3-D space. Also\, it can read signals from its sensors and write commands to its actuators. However\, it does not know the meaning of sensory information and actuator commands\, nor does it know the specifics of its own body or anything about the environment. The bootstrapping process follows three steps: (1) During Skill Search\, the Milirobot explores the effects of motor command on its sensory input and learns\, by exploration\, elementary operations like linear and elementary motion. (2) During Skill learning\, it explores and learns compound operations like moving along a rectangle or circle. (3) Higher Order Skills comprise operations like path following\, wall following\, swarm following\, etc. Higher order skills can be described in abstract notation and downloaded from a knowledge database. The Milirobot learns to execute and optimize higher order skills based on its previously acquired skills. \nMarkus D. Kobelrausch\, MSc received his Master’s degree in Embedded System Engineering from the University of Applied Science Technikum Vienna. He has an 8-year career in the automotive industry\, where he focused on safety-related real-time systems for autonomous driving. As part of his Ph.D. at the Vienna University of Technology (since 2019)\, he has been researching resource-constrained systems that exhibit cognitive properties and build knowledge and awareness over time using various resource-constrained learning methods. He is also involved in several renewable energy system optimization research projects that merge various deep learning techniques that can improve the overall energy efficiency of buildings. \nAll welcome via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267)\, although a few seats are available to join this talk in real life – please email vickid@kth.se for details.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tinydsf-bootstrapping-skills-for-milirobots-from-first-principles/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230406T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230406T160000
DTSTAMP:20230403T112243Z
CREATED:20230127T123343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T112243Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Addressing Uncertainty in the Safety Assurance of Machine-Learning
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur April seminar is with Prof Simon Burton\, Scientifc Director at Fraunhofer IKS.  This will be a Zoom-only event\, and is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures.  The Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267.\nABSTRACT:  There is increasing interest in the application of machine learning (ML) technologies to safety-critical cyber-physical systems\, with the promise of increased levels of autonomy due to their potential for solving complex perception and planning tasks. However\, demonstrating the safety of ML is seen as one of the most challenging hurdles to their widespread deployment for such applications. In this presentation I explore the factors which make the safety assurance of ML such a challenging task. In particular we address the impact of uncertainty on the confidence in ML safety assurance arguments. I show how this uncertainty is related to complexity in the ML models as well as the inherent complexity of the tasks that they are designed to implement. Based on definitions of categories and severity of uncertainty as well as an exemplary assurance argument structure\, we examine possible defeaters to the assurance claims and consequently how the assurance argument can be made more convincing. The analysis combines an understanding of insufficiencies in machine learning models\, their causes and mitigating measures with a systematic analysis of the types of asserted context\, asserted evidence and asserted inference within the assurance argument. \nThis leads to a systematic identification of requirements on the assurance argument structure as well as supporting evidence. A combination of qualitative arguments combined with quantitative evidence are required to build a robust argument for safety-related properties of ML functions that is continuously refined to reduce residual and emerging uncertainties in the arguments after the function has been deployed. \nThe presentation ends with an outlook on both developments in the standardisation of the safety of AI/ML\, in particular ISO PAS 8800 Road Vehicles – Safety and AI\,  as well as open research topics. \nBIO:  Prof. Dr. Simon Burton graduated in computer science at the University of York\, where he also achieved his Phd on the topic of the verification of safety-critical software in 2001. Simon has a background in a number of industries but has spent the last two decades mainly focusing on the automotive sector\, working in research and development projects as well as leading consulting\, engineering service and product organisations. Most recently\, he held the role of Director of Vehicle Systems Safety at Robert Bosch GmbH where\, amongst other things\, his efforts were focused on developing strategies for ensuring the safety of automated driving systems. \nIn September 2020\, he joined Fraunhofer IKS in the role of scientific director where he steers research strategy into “safe intelligence”. His own personal research interests include the safety assurance of complex\, autonomous systems\, and the safety of machine learning. In addition to his role within Fraunhofer IKS\, he has the role of honorary visiting professor at the University of York where he supports a number of research activities and interdisciplinary collaborations. He is also an active member in various standardization committees\, and is the convenor of the ISO working group ISO/TC 22/SC 32/WG14 with the responsibility for developing an international standard on Safety and AI for road vehicles.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-addressing-uncertainty-in-the-safety-assurance-of-machine-learning/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230314T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230314T120000
DTSTAMP:20230123T153245Z
CREATED:20230123T150302Z
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SUMMARY:11th Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 11th Quarterly Meeting takes place on Tuesday 14 March!  Agenda and details sent by email to all members.  RSVP by 1 March!
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/11th-quarterly-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230313T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230316T170000
DTSTAMP:20230123T134255Z
CREATED:20230123T134255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T134255Z
UID:5647-1678694400-1678986000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
DESCRIPTION:The 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) takes place in Stockholm from 13-16 March. \nThe conference theme for HRI 2023 is “HRI for all” and will focus on key HRI theories\, methods\, designs\, studies\, and technical advances that aim to understand and promote inclusion and diversity in HRI. We encourage the community to consider ways to both make the field a more inclusive place for those who may not feel included\, as well as to encourage inclusion within our research methods and practices. \nPlease see the HR I2023 homepage for the programme and how to register:\nhttps://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/acm-ieee-international-conference-on-human-robot-interaction/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230202T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230202T160000
DTSTAMP:20230125T082633Z
CREATED:20230120T151752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T082633Z
UID:5633-1675350000-1675353600@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Robots Gone Wrong: The role of failure in human-robot interactions
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur February seminar is with Dr Rebecca Stower\, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Social Robotics Lab (SORO) at the Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning here at KTH.  This will be a hybrid event\, and is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures.  The Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267\, and the real-life location will be shared with those who sign-up. \nABSTRACT: As robotics research continues to advance\, there are increased opportunities for humans and robots to coexist in workplaces\, homes\, and public spaces. Yet\, alongside this increased presence comes also more opportunities for failures to occur. Such failures can be physical\, technical\, or social and can lead to sometimes severe communication and task breakdowns. In this seminar\, I will cover the role of such failures in shaping (different kinds of) human-robot interactions. I will also discuss different psychological concepts that are especially relevant to assessing and understanding robot failures\, including trust\, robot agency\, and likeability. This research can also be considered in light of the replication crisis\, where different challenges might be encountered by researchers when designing and implementing user studies involving both humans and robots. Consequently\, the seminar will also consider the role of interdisciplinary robotics research in addressing such challenges. \nBIO: Rebecca Stower  is a postdoctoral researcher in the social robotics lab (SORO) at the Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm\, Sweden. Previously\, she worked as a researcher at the Paris8 CHArt Laboratory in collaboration with the Laboratory of Intuitive and Natural Interactions with Teleoperated Robots (INIT) in Montreal. She graduated with her PhD in Psychology in 2021 as part of the ANIMATAS H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network (2018-2022). She is interested in the role of failures during human robot interactions\, and how this affects people’s attitudes and behaviours towards robots. She is also highly involved with interdisciplinary research and the open science movement.  You can read more on her homepage! \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-robots-gone-wrong-the-role-of-failure-in-human-robot-interactions/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221208T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221208T203000
DTSTAMP:20221115T111309Z
CREATED:20221115T111243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T111309Z
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SUMMARY:Trustworthy Edge Computing Workshop at SEC 2022
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday 8 December (local time 9.00-12.30 / Stockholm kl.18.00-20.30) when TECoSA holds a half-day workshop as part of the  7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing taking place in Seattle\, WA from 5-8 December 2022. \nThis will be the second TEC Workshop! Click here for the Programme and Description \n\nTo register\, please go to: https://acm-ieee-sec.org/2022/attend.php\n(Early registration deadline: 15 Nov 2022)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/trustworthy-edge-computing-workshop-at-sec-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221206T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20221206T160000
DTSTAMP:20221129T083236Z
CREATED:20221124T092807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T083236Z
UID:5543-1670333400-1670342400@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:Situation Awareness for Autonomous Agents Under Limited Sensing
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the half-time seminar for José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez!  \nAbstract:   Autonomous agents need to understand their environment and predict its future evolution based on the information collected by their sensors\, i.e. they  need situation awareness. This awareness is used to make predictions about the future and plan their own actions accordingly. \nLimited sensor range and occlusions constrain the portion of the environment that can be observed at once. Additionally\, sensors suffer from noise and errors\, which limits the confidence in their measurements. \nThis thesis focuses on improving the situation awareness of autonomous agents by explicitly considering sensor limitations and leveraging information collected over time using knowledge about the possible dynamics of the environment. \nThe main criteria used to evaluate the results from this work are the safety and performance of the autonomous agents\, and the computational complexity of the algorithms. \nJosé Manuel Gaspar Sánchez\nRespondent: José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez\nDiscussion leader:  Professor Emilio Frazzoli\, ETH and MIT\nSupervisors: Martin Törngren and Jana Tumova\nTime: 13:30 – 16.00\, Tuesday 6 December 2022\nPlace: In real life at KTH (E32\, Lindstedtsvägen 3) and via Zoom \nHalf-time seminar material: \n\nHalf-time thesis overall summary\nPublication 1\nPublication 2
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/situation-awareness-for-autonomous-agents-under-limited-sensing/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221202T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221202T130000
DTSTAMP:20221006T120345Z
CREATED:20220726T113413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221006T120345Z
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SUMMARY:10th Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 10th Quarterly Meeting takes place on Friday 2 December!  Agenda and details sent by email to all members.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/10th-quarterly-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221201T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221201T160000
DTSTAMP:20221025T112403Z
CREATED:20220803T125345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221025T112403Z
UID:5361-1669906800-1669910400@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Dynamic Games for Cyber Deception
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Autumn 2022\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email vickid@kth.se to register.\nOur December seminar is with Quanyan Zhu\, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU\, and Director of LARX\, the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems.  This event is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures\, where Prof Zhu is currently a scholar  in residence. \nVenue:  This session takes place via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267)\, and on KTH Campus (The Cafeteria\, Digital Futures Hub\, Osquars Backe 5\, floor 2).  If you plan to join in real life\, please email vickid @  kth.se by 28 November (so we can organise fika).   \nABSTRACT:  Deception and anti-deception technologies are new paradigms of active cyber defense. They provide defenders a proactive and autonomous security mechanism by engaging the adversaries and influencing their moves to the defender’s advantage. Game theory captures the strategic and self-interested nature of attackers and defenders in cybersecurity. It provides an ideal set of quantitative tools to develop such a framework to analyze and design deception. In this talk\, we first present a taxonomy of deception and counter-deception and understand how they can be conceptualized\, quantified\, and designed or mitigated. Then\, we present a class of dynamic games of incomplete information to capture the fundamental characteristics of deception and demonstrate the applications of game theory and learning in problems such as attack engagement\, lateral movement\, and information manipulation. The talk will also discuss open problems and research challenges that the game theory community can address and contribute with an objective to build a multidisciplinary bridge between game theory and cybersecurity. \nBIO:  Quanyan Zhu received B. Eng. in Honors Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2006\, M. A. Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2008\, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. After stints at Princeton University\, he is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, New York University (NYU). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at NYU. He is a recipient of many awards\, including NSF CAREER Award\, NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship\, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF)\, NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS)\, and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowships. He spearheaded and chaired INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control on Smart Energy Systems (CCSES)\, Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (WCGT)\, and ICRA workshop on Security and Privacy of Robotics. His current research interests include game theory\, machine learning\, cyber deception\, network optimization and control\, smart cities\, Internet of Things\, and cyber-physical systems. He has served as the general chair or the TPC chair of the 7th and the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) in 2016 and 2020\, the 9th International Conference on NETwork Games\, COntrol and OPtimisation (NETGCOOP) in 2018\, the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019) in 2019\, and 2020 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). He is a co-author of three recent books published by Springer: Cyber-Security in Critical Infrastructures: A Game-Theoretic Approach (with S. Rass\, S. Schauer\, and S. König)\, A Game- and Decision-Theoretic Approach to Resilient Interdependent Network Analysis and Design (with J. Chen)\, and Cross-Layer Design for Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems: A Decision and Game Theoretic Approach (with Z. Xu).
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-with-quanyan-zhu-director-of-larx/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221122T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221123T163000
DTSTAMP:20221213T141026Z
CREATED:20221209T132112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221213T141026Z
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SUMMARY:SCSSS 2022 - Scandinavian Conference on System & Software Safety
DESCRIPTION:Taking place at Lindholmspiren\, Göteborg\, this conference is a central meeting place for Scandinavian safety experts from different industries. It is an opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts. There will be an overview day followed by a day of parallel sessions with in depth presentations and discussions about different challenges\, techniques\, standards and methods. \nSeveral TECoSA partners (KTH\, Einride\, Saab\, Safety Integrity and CAG Syntell) are involved in the organsiation and workshops this year .\nWorkshop 1 – Managing continuous assurance of complex dependable systems (Fredrik Warg\, RISE)\nWorkshop 2 –  Understanding CPS Trustworthiness (Rusyadi Ramli\, KTH)\nWorkshop 3 –  Embracing complexity of Systems-of-Systems using Model-Based Risk Assessment and Safety Analysis  (Tom Strandberg\, CAG Syntell and Joakim Fröberg\, Safety Integrity)\nWorkshop 4 – Automated and connected driving and the promises and challenges of cellular technology for systems of systems (Martin Törngren\, KTH) \nSee the full programme and register on the conference homepage: http://safety.addalot.se/2022
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/scsss-2022-scandinavian-conference-on-system-software-safety/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221114T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221114T110000
DTSTAMP:20221101T123721Z
CREATED:20221101T123721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T123721Z
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SUMMARY:How does edge AI change the principles of communications and computing?
DESCRIPTION:A Digital Futures Distinguished lecture with Kaibin Huang from The University of Hong Kong\nAbstract: Data has replaced oil as the world’s most valuable resource. An enormous amount of data is being generated 24/7 by tens of billions of edge devices at the network edge. Their distillation into AI using machine learning algorithms promises to automate practically unlimited IoT applications ranging from autonomous driving to virtual reality. This gives rise to a hot area known as edge intelligence\, a distinctive feature of 6G mobile networks. \nThree questions will be asked to understand the induced paradigm shift in communications:\n1) Is reliable communication always needed?\n2) Is interference always a foe?\n3) Is analogue computing outdated? \nProf Huang will introduce some 6G edge-intelligence technologies that feature communication-computing fusion to find negative answers to these questions. They include channel-noise protected/accelerated edge AI\, over-the-air federated learning\, and neuromorphic computing-empowered ultra-fast baseband processing. \nYou can find Prof Huang’s bio and the Zoom link at: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/distinguished-lecture-kaibin-huang-the-university-of-hong-kong/ 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/how-does-edge-ai-change-the-principles-of-communications-and-computing/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221103T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221103T160000
DTSTAMP:20221025T112450Z
CREATED:20220803T124516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221025T112450Z
UID:5355-1667487600-1667491200@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Efficient Inference at the Edge
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Autumn 2022\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email vickid @ kth.se to register.\nOur November seminar is with Professor Axel Jantsch\, Professor of systems on chips at TU Wien.  The session is co-hosted with Digital Futures\, and will be given via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267)\, with a number of seats available in real life on KTH Campus (Digital Futures Conference Room\, Osquars backe 5\, SE-114 28 Stockholm).  Please email vickid @ kth.se by 31 October if you plan to join in real life. \nABSTRACT:  The presentation will review the design space\, the trade-offs and the available options for implementing Deep Neural Networks in resource constrained embedded devices.  Going into depth\, the talk will present:\n~ a detailed\, layer-wise power and delay profiling of neural network inference\, and\n~ pruning based network compression techniques. \nBIO: Axel Jantsch received the Ph.D. degree from TU Wien\, Vienna\, Austria\, in 1992. From 2002 to 2014\, he was a full professor in      electronic systems design at KTH. Since 2014\, he has been a Professor of systems on chips at TU Wien\, Vienna\, Austria.  His current research interests include systems on chips\, self-aware cyber-physical systems\, and embedded machine learning.  You can read more on his homepage: https://jantsch.se/AxelJantsch/HomePage/research.html \nThis event is co-sponsored by Digital Futures (www.digitalfutures.kth.se)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-efficient-inference-at-the-edge/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20221024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20221024T180000
DTSTAMP:20221018T074518Z
CREATED:20221018T074510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T074518Z
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SUMMARY:(online) Consultation Workshop on Edge AI  - KDT JU’s Focus Topic Call 2023
DESCRIPTION:As part of the preparation of KDT JU Work Programme and Call 2023\, a focus topic on Edge AI is under discussion. The work programme promotes focus topics notably in the context of delivering on national and European policy priorities such as digital leadership. \nThere will be a virtual open workshop on Monday 24th October 2022 (16:00 – 18:00) to get feedback from the ECS (electronic components and systems) community on our vision for this focus topic. The baseline of the workshop is a long-term strategy for a series of focus topics in this area\, as well as a specific draft text for Call 2023\, as it was prepared by a core team of experts gathered by the three industry associations that are partnering in the KDT JU. \nThe workshop is organized in two parts. The first part will include a general presentation of the workshop baseline and brief pitches by selected experts. The second part will open the debate with the audience. \nParticipation at the event is free of charge\, but registration is compulsory.  See: Consultation Workshop on Edge AI  – KDT JU’s Focus Topic Call 2023 | (europa.eu)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/online-consultation-workshop-on-edge-ai-kdt-jus-focus-topic-call-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221023T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20221023T170000
DTSTAMP:20220922T074734Z
CREATED:20220922T074531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T074734Z
UID:5453-1666515600-1666544400@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:2nd RL-CONFORM Workshop\, co-located with IROS'22
DESCRIPTION:Reinforcement Learning meets HRI\, Control\, and Formal Methods!\nTECoSA researchers Iolanda Leite. Jana Tumova. Sanne van Waveren and Alexis Linard are co-organising a 1-day workshop at IROS’22\, taking place in Kyoto\, Japan. \nReinforcement learning (RL) has shown remarkable achievements in applications ranging from autonomous driving\, object manipulation\, or beating best players in complex board-games. Different communities\, including RL\, human-robot interaction (HRI)\, control\, and formal methods (FM)\, have proposed multiple techniques to increase safety\, transparency\, and robustness of RL. However\, elementary problems of RL remain open: exploratory and learned policies may cause unsafe situations\, lack task-robustness\, or be unstable. By satisfactorily addressing these problems\, RL research will have long-lasting impact and see breakthroughs on real physical systems and in human-centered environments. As an example\, a collaborative mobile manipulator needs to be robust and verifiably safe around humans. This requires an integrated approach with RL to learn optimal policies for complex manipulation tasks\, control techniques to ensure stability of the system\, FM techniques to provide formal guarantees to ensure safety\, and techniques from human-robot interaction to learn from and interact with humans. \nThe aim of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring these communities together to: \n\nIdentify key challenges and opportunities related to safe and robust exploration\, formal safety and stability guarantees of control systems\, safety in physical human-robot collaborative systems;\nProvide unique insights into how these challenges depend on the application\, desired system properties\, and complexity of the environment;\nPropose new and debate existing approaches to ensure desired properties of learned policies in a wide range of domains;\nDiscuss existing and new benchmarks to accelerate safe and robust RL research;\nDisseminate the outcomes of the workshop and publish the results as a perspectives article in one of the major robotics journals.\n\n \n  \nThere will be two interactive panel sessions\, one on Principles and understanding of RL algorithms and models and one on Benchmarks\, implementation\, and accelerating RL research. \nFor the full program\, please see\nhttps://rlconform-workshop.github.io/\n  \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/2nd-rl-conform-workshop-co-located-with-iros22/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221019T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221019T150000
DTSTAMP:20220920T113000Z
CREATED:20220325T143933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T113000Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Course Module "Fundamentals of Security for Edge Computing" (2/2)
DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free to all TECoSA members. To register\, please email tecosa-admin@kth.se stating which module(s) you wish to take. Alternatively\, calendar invitations will be issued to everyone on the tecosa-all mailing list. You can register by accepting the invitations that are of interest to you. (This module runs on more than one date – please be sure to accept all the relevant invitations.)\nFormat:  Two 2-hour workshops plus self-study assignment\nLocation: Kista Campus\, with “join on-line” option\nTiming: Weds 5 Oct kl.13-15 and Weds 19 Oct kl.13-15 (all CET)\nModule led by: KTH: Elena Dubrova (dubrova@kth.se)\nContent: *Introduction to cryptography (secret and public cryptosystems\, encryption and authentication basics); *Attack vectors; *Anti-tamper techniques. \nProf. Elena Dubrova is an internationally renowned expert in hardware security\, including the design of energy-efficient cryptographic primitives\, secure key storage\, countermeasures against side-channel attacks and mitigation of hardware Trojans. She is author of 200+ international peer-reviewed publications and books\, and has a proven track record of successfully transferring technology to industry. Her work has been awarded prestigious awards such as the IBM faculty partnership award for outstanding contributions to IBM research and development. She is a program committee member of top international conferences such as Design Automation Conference (DAC) and Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE). She has been a principal investigator of many successfully completed projects funded by SSF\, VINNOVA and VR. \nThe TECoSA Course
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-course-module-fundamentals-of-security-for-edge-computing-1-3-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221006T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221006T160000
DTSTAMP:20220915T125418Z
CREATED:20220915T124310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T125418Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Control Systems in the presence of Computational Problems
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Autumn 2022\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions.  Members can register via the invitations; non-members can register via email to tecosa-admin @kth . se\nOur October seminar is with Professor Martina Maggio from the Computer Science Department at Saarland University and also the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University. \nThe session will be given in via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267). \nABSTRACT:  Feedback control is pervasive in our lives\, as it often lays the foundation of technology we daily interface with. Control systems are at the core of the energy distribution infrastructure\, govern the behavior of vehicles\, and are embedded into household appliances like washing machines. Controllers usually use sensors\, that provide information about the physical environment\, to calculate the values that actuators should assume to fulfill specific requirements. For example\, adaptive cruise control systems use the throttle to automatically adjust the vehicle’s speed\, while maintaining a safe distance from vehicles ahead. \nThe actuator values are calculated using hardware and software. Hence\, the computation of the new control signals is subject to accidental faults\, systematic issues\, and software bugs. However\, in many cases\, these computational problems can safely be ignored. This talk will introduce the problem of analyzing the behavior of control software subject to computational problems\, and verifying when no corrective action is needed\, i.e.\, when the control software is able to fulfill the system requirements despite the presence of computational problems. \nBIO:  Martina Maggio is a Professor at the Computer Science Department\, Saarland University since March 2020 and also an Associate Professor at the Department of Automatic Control\, Lund University since 2017.  She completed her Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano\, working with Alberto Leva on the applications of control-theoretical tools for the design of computing systems. During her Ph.D. she spent one year as a visiting graduate student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT\, working with Anant Agarwal and Hank Hoffmann on the Self-Aware Computing project.  In 2019\, she spent a sabbatical year at Bosch Corporate Research in Renningen\, Germany\, working with Dirk Ziegenbein and Arne Hamann on the verification and validation of control systems in presence of deadline misses and computational faults.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/5430/
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Course Module "Fundamentals of Security for Edge Computing" (1/2)
DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free to all TECoSA members. To register\, please email tecosa-admin@kth.se stating which module(s) you wish to take. Alternatively\, calendar invitations will be issued to everyone on the tecosa-all mailing list. You can register by accepting the invitations that are of interest to you. (This module runs on more than one date – please be sure to accept all the relevant invitations.)\nFormat: Two 2-hour workshops plus self-study assignment\nLocation: Kista Campus\, with “join on-line” option\nTiming: Weds 5 Oct kl.13-15 and Weds 19 Oct kl.13-15 (all CET)\nModule led by: KTH: Elena Dubrova (dubrova@kth.se)\nContent: *Introduction to cryptography (secret and public cryptosystems\, encryption and authentication basics); *Attack vectors; *Anti-tamper techniques. \nProf. Elena Dubrova is an internationally renowned expert in hardware security\, including the design of energy-efficient cryptographic primitives\, secure key storage\, countermeasures against side-channel attacks and mitigation of hardware Trojans. She is author of 200+ international peer-reviewed publications and books\, and has a proven track record of successfully transferring technology to industry. Her work has been awarded prestigious awards such as the IBM faculty partnership award for outstanding contributions to IBM research and development. She is a program committee member of top international conferences such as Design Automation Conference (DAC) and Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE). She has been a principal investigator of many successfully completed projects funded by SSF\, VINNOVA and VR. \nThe TECoSA Course
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-course-module-fundamentals-of-security-for-edge-computing-1-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:9th Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 9th TECoSA quarterly meeting takes place in Stockholm on the morning of Friday 16 September.  Agenda and details to follow by email to all members.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/9th-quarterly-meeting/
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