1) Simplifying the development of complex systems. Today it remains extremely difficult to build robust systems that interact with the environment in any significant way. This includes embedded systems, networked systems and large-scale Internet services. I believe the way out if through the combination of compiler technology, less expressive languages (perhaps domain specific), and some forms ...

This paper presents a vision-based color segmentation algorithm suitable for urban environments that separates an image into areas of drivable and non-drivable terrain. Assuming that a part of the image is known to be drivable terrain, other parts of the image are classified by comparing the Euclidean distance of each pixel’s color to the mean colors of the drivable area in real-time. Moving th...

This paper describes a data set collected by MIT’s autonomous vehicle Talos during the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Data from a high precision navigation system, 5 cameras, 12 SICK planar laser range scanners, and a Velodyne high density laser range scanner were synchronized and logged to disk for 90km of travel. In addition to documenting a number of large loop closures useful for developing ma...

Treating autonomic systems as solving individual, isolated problems misses the opportunity to consider adaptation as an object of study in its own right. We propose a grand challenge of supporting adaptation in an open and stable manner, embracing the evolution of system goals and constraints over time without sacrificing our ability to describe, implement and analyse autonomic solutions. We su...

We present an approach that allows mission and contingency management to be achieved in a distributed and dynamic manner without any central control over multiple software modules. This approach comprises two key elements—a mission management subsystem and a Canonical Software Architecture (CSA) for a planning subsystem. The mission management subsystem works in conjunction with the planning su...

Modeling & Simulation (M&S) is used in many different fields and has made many significant contributions. As a field in its own right, there have been many advances in methodologies and technologies. In 2002 a workshop was held in Dagstuhl, Germany, to reflect on the grand challenges facing M&S. Ten years on, a series of M& S Grand Challenge activities are marking a decade of progress and are p...

The demographic grand challenge of population ageing will be reflected in most areas of society and, to a great extent, in the area of transportation as well. It will have an impact on, for example, travel demand, infrastructure needs, traffic safety and the climate. The post-World War II cohorts, the so-called “baby boomers”, will comprise a large share of tomorrow's older population, and it i...

We present a unified framework to predict tumor proliferation scores from breast histopathology whole slide images. Our system offers a fully automated solution to predicting both a molecular data-based, and a mitosis counting-based tumor proliferation score. The framework integrates three modules, each fine-tuned to maximize the overall performance: An image processing component for handling w...

In 2007, the software and systems traceability community met at the first Natural Bridge symposium on the Grand Challenges of Traceability to establish and address research goals for achieving effective, trustworthy, and ubiquitous traceability. Ten years later, in 2017, the community came together to evaluate a decade of progress towards achieving these goals. These proceedings document some o...

This submission addresses the Ubiquitous Systems Grand Challenge. We propose that the challenge should be more explicit about issues concerning services within such systems. By services, we refer to networked software entities that provide the user with a service. Such services abound in computing and communications: GRID services, information services, network services, voice services, web ser...