This article highlights challenges associated with securing visible light communication (VLC) systems by using physical layer security (PLS) techniques. Motivated the achievements in PLS studies for radio frequency (RF) communication, many techniques VLC were also rigorously investigated tailoring RF to environment. However, careful consideration of inherent differences between and is still nee...

In this paper we discuss challenges and new directions in modeling and simulation for effects-based what-if and sensitivity analysis of dynamic, distributed cyber-physical systems. We are motivated on one hand by the critical need to reliably understand how mission-critical cyber-physical systems would respond to unanticipated effects, and on the other hand by the technology gap that has preven...

The series constitute ‘ideas in progress,’ after the notion described by I.J. Good in ‘The Scientist Speculates.’ Good also describes ideas about ideas as ‘partly baked ideas’ believing that “ ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right.” While the papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may...

Reducing power consumption, improving designer productivity and mitigating thermal effects are grand challenges for future CMOS-based designs in the nanometer regime [1]. Solving these challenges requires a power estimation methodology that is temperature aware and simple, fast and accurate. In this paper, we present such a power estimation methodology that utilizes data from different levels o...

Modeling and simulation of multiphysics multiscale systems poses a grand challenge to computational science. To adequately simulate numerous intertwined processes characterized by different spatial and temporal scales (often spanning many orders of magnitude), sophisticated models and advanced computational techniques are required. The aim of the workshop on Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscal...