WORKSHOP INVITATION: 

Cyber-Physical Systems Public Working Group

August 11-12, 2014 on the NIST Campus, Gaithersburg, MD

You are cordially invited to participate in this workshop 

on August 11-12, 2014, and join your colleagues in 

launching the new Cyber-Physical Systems Public 

Working Group (CPS PWG), which was formed by NIST 

to facilitate broad collaboration and build a unified 

technical foundation that accelerates progress in CPS 

across all domains. The purpose of the workshop is to 

develop consensus around the scope, milestones, and 

work program for the CPS PWG and its sub-groups. 

CPSsor “smart” systemsare co-engineered 

interacting networks of physical and computational 

components. These systems are at the heart of our 

critical infrastructure and form the basis of future 

smart services. They promise increased efficiency and 

interaction between computer networks and the 

physical world, enabling advances that improve our 

quality of life in fields such as personalized health care, 

emergency response, traffic flow management, and the 

electric power generation and delivery.

The CPS PWG brings together R&D experts working on 

existing and planned CPSs across a diverse set of 

technical stakeholder communities in industry, 

academia, and government. The PWG’s efforts are 

focused on four principal topics, around which CPS 

PWG sub-groups have been formed. Each group is led 

by a multi-sector team of co-chairs, as shown below.

REGISTER NOW

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Participants must register in advance to gain access to 

the NIST Campus. There is no fee to attend.

Workshop Program

The workshop begins at 9:00 am on August 11 and ends 

just before noon on August 12. The agenda includes 

stage-setting plenary talks and facilitated breakout 

sessions where everyone will have the opportunity to 

contribute. The preliminary agenda follows.

Who Should Participate and Why

The CPS-PWG and this Workshop are open to anyone 

with an interest in cyber-physical systems from all 

sectors worldwide and participation is free.

Workshop participants will help to shape the action 

plans that the CPS PWG and its sub-groups will follow, 

and provide the foundation to drive progress going 

forward.

About the CPS PWG

The PWG was kicked off via webinar on June 30, 2014. It 

is composed of four working sub-groups, as shown 

below. Participants may choose to be members of one or 

more sub-groups. These groups meet virtually on a biweekly basis, as well as face to face at the August 

workshop and at another open meeting to be held at a 

later date. Each sub-group will be actively engaged in 

preparing documents reflecting the input, contributions 

and dialog of participants in a consensus-driven process. CPS PWG Sub-Groups and Co-Chairs

Definitions, Taxonomy, & 

Reference Architecture

Janos Sztipanovits, 

Vanderbilt University

Stephen Mellor, Industrial 

Internet Consortium (IIC)

Abdella Battou, NIST

Use Cases John Baras, University of 

Maryland

Stephen Mellor, Industrial 

Internet Consortium (IIC)

Eric Simmon, NIST

Cybersecurity & Privacy William Sanders, University 

of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Claire Vishik, Intel

Ronald Perez, Advanced Micro 

Devices

Victoria Pillitteri, NIST

Timing & Synchronization Sundeep Chandhoke, 

National Instruments

Hugh Melvin, National University 

of Ireland

Marc Weiss, NIST

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PRELIMINARY AGENDA
NIST Cyber-Physical Systems

Public Working Group Workshop

This is a one and a half day workshop to be held on August 11-12, 2014 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD.

Monday, August 11, 2014

9:00 am Keynote: Introduction to the Cyber-Physical Systems Public Working Group 

Howard Harary, Acting Director, Engineering Laboratory, NIST

9:30 am CPS PWG Vision and Proposed Schedule for 2014 and Beyond 

David Wollman, Deputy Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, NIST 

CPS PWG Sub-group Presentations:

10:00 am Definitions, Taxonomy, and Reference Architecture Sub-group Plan

Co-Chair, Definitions/Taxonomy & Reference Architecture 

10:15 am Use Cases Sub-group Plan

Co-Chair, Use Cases

10:30 am Break

Sub-group presentations (continued)

10:45 am Timing and Synchronization Sub-group Plan

Co-Chair, Timing and Synchronization 

11:15 am Cybersecurity and Privacy Sub-group Plan

Co-Chair, Security/Privacy

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Concurrent Breakouts

Professionally facilitated working sessions will be held for each sub-group topic.

4:00 pm Adjourn Workshop Day 1

4:15 pm Co-chairs coordination meeting

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

9:00 am Convene Workshop Day 2

Breakout Session Reports:

• Definitions/Taxonomy & Reference Architecture

• Use Cases

• Timing and Synchronization

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Breakout Session Reports (continued):

• Cybersecurity and Privacy

11:15 am Concluding Remarks

David Wollman, NIST

11:30 am Workshop Adjourns

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