How will the integration of large percentages of renewable energy sources affect the electrical power grid? More specifically, how will replacing fossil-fuel burning generators with intermittent renewable energy sources impact the “Smart Grid”, notably in the form of additional energy storage, feedback control systems, and networked microgrids? Dr. Rush D. Robinett III will explore these timely issues, explaining how the brute force, dispatchable fossil-fuel-based electricity generation of today will give way to a “Smart Grid” based on two-way power and information flow in the form of networked microgrids. Dr. Rush D. Robinett III is Senior Manager of the Grid Modernization and Military Energy Systems Group at Sandia National Laboratories, focusing on the research and development of microgrids and networked microgrids. Rush began his career at Sandia in 1988 as a Member of the Technical Staff, working on the Star Wars Program. In 1995, he was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and shortly thereafter to Technical Manager of the Intelligent Systems Sensors and Controls Department within the Robotics Center. In 2002, Rush was promoted to Deputy Director and Senior Manager of the Energy and Infrastructure Future Group, where he developed new opportunities in distributed, decentralized energy and transportation infrastructures with a focus on entropy and information metrics. Rush has authored more than 100 technical articles, including three books and holds seven patents. He has three degrees in Aerospace Engineering: a BS and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and an MS from the University of Texas at Austin.

Today, Morocco imports almost 96% of its commercial energy needs. However, it has a very large potential for harnessing renewable energy sources. Wind and solar energy could play an important role in the decarbonization of the Moroccan electricity generation reducing hence the energy bill of the country. The shift to a significantly larger solar and wind energies will require the creation of a robust renewable energies system of systems that should operate jointly with a central electricity generation. Mr. Driss Zejli is the Head of the Renewable Energy Economy and Technologies Unit of the National Centre of Scientific and Technical Research of Morocco since 2005. He is author and co-author of many papers, conferences and books on both renewable energies and renewable energy powered desalination. He participated in many national and international research projects.

Sustainable energy has slowly but surely becoming relevant source of energy in many parts of the world. From US to Europe to Asia and South Pacific and on to Middle East, photovoltaic and wind energies are the desired sources. Such new and expanded sources of energy is fast creating numerous sources of distributed generations and creating a great number of micro-grids of energy. However, intermittency nature of both of these sources would make it very difficult to rely on for instantaneous need for electricity in urban or rural areas. In this presentation, fundamental aspects of cyber-physical systems will first be discussed and then a management scheme for microgrids will be presented based on a Fuzzy Logic-based framework is proposed for control of Battery Storage Unit in Micro-Grid Systems to achieve Efficient Energy Management. Mo Jamshidi (Fellow IEEE, Fellow ASME, Fellow AAAS, Fellow TWAS, Fellow NYAS, Assoc. Fellow-AIAA) is the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor of the University of Texas Systems and working at the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA. He has over 560 technical publications including 58 books (10 text books), research volumes, and edited volumes. He is the Founding Editor or co-founding editor or Editor-in-Chief of 5 journals including IEEE Control Systems Magazine. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (inaugurated in September 2007). Dr. Jamshidi is a Fellow or member of 8 societies and academies. He is the recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award and the IEEE CSS Millennium Award. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Society on Systems, Man and Cybernetics and the IEEE Systems Council. He is an Honorary Professor at three Chinese and one Australian Universities. In October 2005 he was awarded the IEEE’s Norbert Weiner Research Achievement Award.

We don't have engineering problems; we have enough good engineers to solve any that come along. Our problem is managing the people!” is a statement that we hear over and over again from those involved in managing the development and operation of Systems of Systems (SoS). It is not wholly true, of course, but in many important SoS in military and civilian endeavours, the role of humans both in terms of causing difficulties and in recovering from them are dominant features of SoS operation. George Rebovich’s Jr. insightful comment that from the single-system community’s perspective, its part of the SoS capability represents additional obligations, constraints and complexities is the key consideration in terms of avoiding problems and achieving more effective operations; but overcoming this problem is far from easy. We shall begin with a consideration of some of the major challenges to coping in a SoS environment. These concern management of security and safety, particularly in the situation of increasingly networked Information and Operational Technologies (IT/OT integration). Loss of situational awareness of participants in a SoS appears to be a significant factor in catastrophic failures; this will also be discussed using examples. The additional challenges due to autonomous decision making by non-human agents will be reviewed. Perhaps an under-appreciated aspect of SoS is their ability to introduce previously unconsidered ethical conundrums that arise for the three aspects noted above. Having set the scene with the introduction of problems, we shall consider the ways in which these may be mitigated by identification of desired behaviours and how they can be encouraged. We shall comment on the use of open architectures as a means for enabling partnerships among system owners and operators and the opportunities for incentivising better SoS behaviours. Ultimately, the presentation will leave the question unresolved, but will identify the key research themes that should be addressed to enable systems engineers and others to mitigate bad behaviours and encourage more effective SoS operation.

The freight transport benefits from advanced and innovative services based on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies. In fact, ICT equipped freight objects (such as vehicles, containers and shipments) which know their present location and are autonomous, self-aware and capable to communicate with their environment increase safety and security (at parking areas and on the move) that are critical for example in the transportation of precious and dangerous goods, allow efficiency of processes to be improved and enable new value adding features. Moreover, cooperative and distributed systems integrating mobile communications, advanced satellite navigation technologies (using EGNOS - European Geostationary Overlay Service - and Galileo), onboard processing and sensors, geographic information and enhanced digital maps, support all transport users, and improve traffic efficiency, safety and security. In the last decade, various projects have been implemented in Europe aimed at the development of interoperable platforms providing a large variety of efficiency, mobility, comfort and safety related added value services for the freight transport market. In this paper, two cases involving Italian stakeholders are presented, in the light of the European vision concerning the European-Wide Service Platform (EWSP): ¬- European projects devoted to the use of EGNOS for the road freight transport ¬- The on-going initiatives conducted in Italy in relation to the Italian ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Directive and the National Logistics Plan (NLP). Antonella Di Fazio has a Degree in Physics. She works in the GNSS Infomobility Business Unit in Telespazio (a Finmeccanica/ Thales company), in charge of innovative applications & services. Since 2000 she has been the program and technical coordinator of European R&D projects, dealing with Satellite Navigation technologies applications and services in the transport domain (primarily road, freight and logistics sectors). In the last eight years she has been involved in activities devoted to the use of the European GNSS (EGNOS/Galileo) for regulated applications and services, in particular in road and land transport domains (such as dangerous goods transport, road charging, city logistics, regulated fleet management, freight security and intermodal transport). Antonella Di Fazio is also: - Member of the Board and the Technical & Scientific Committee of TTS Italia (the Italian ITS Association), in charge of satellite navigation technologies in ITS - Expert in TEN-T Expert Group on ITS & New technologies, set up as part of the TEN-T policy review. Massimiliano Zazza Born on 18 July 1960 in Rome (Italy). He hold a Master’s Degree in Mathematics in 1992. From 1992 to 1995 he has developed algorithms in railway traffic optimization models and in 2009 he attended the European Senior Civil Servant course of excellence - SSPA. He is with Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport since 2006 where he is Head of ICT & ITS Project Unit, Responsible for MIT in ITS national/european projects and Responsible for MIT in the development of the Logistics National Platform. From 2002 to 2006 he worked for Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport as Head of ICT Project Unit, Project Manager in experimental project for transport of dangerous freight, Project manager for the development of the national WAN for the Ministry and Project manager for implementation of ERP system for HR and management control (SAP). From 1999 to 2001 he worked for Ministry of Transport and Navigation as Member of Y2K National Unit, Head of ICT Project Unit. He worked also on Policy of development IT systems and Planning and management of security assessment activities. From 1992 to 1998 we worked for South East Railways – ROME (ITALY) as Head of IT Unit developing Planning of BPR activities and IT systems.

This presentation reviews strategies for decision-making in transport networks subject to various forms of hazard. The range of hazards covered range from high probability / low consequence incidents to low probability / high consequence incidents. The key concepts of hyperarc, hyperpath and hypertour are introduced and the way they can be used to represent decision-making under uncertainty is discussed. Routeing and scheduling algorithms for hypernetworks are presented and discussed with respect to their structure and efficiency. Two applications will be used for illustration; the first is risk averse navigation in congested road networks, where the focus is on high probability / low consequence incidents, while the second is hazmat transportation, where the focus is on low probability / high consequence incidents. There is a discussion about how developments in information and communication technologies are transforming decision-making in uncertain networks and how these changes may be represented in hypernetworks. The presentation concludes by highlighting areas where future progress in the field can be expected. Michael Bell is Professor of Transport Operations and Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC) at Imperial College London. His research and teaching interests span ports and maritime transport, logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering and control, intelligent transport systems, transit assignment and journey planning (in no particular sequence).

Control Centre collects information from different Wayside Monitoring Systems acquiring multimedia data and measurements related transit trains. Control Centre of Wayside Monitoring Systems allows operators to get real time status of the transit train and infrastructure, detecting defects and giving information/images to help the operators to take the most suitable decisions in order to avoid accidents. Moreover, managing the collected data, the railway maintenance process can be improved. Nadia Mazzino hold a Laurea degree in Math in 1990 and she works in AnsaldoSTS since 1993. From 1993 to 1998, she worked on the requirement definition to the delivery of a new traffic command and control system. She was involved in the project of Roma Termini, studying and developing innovative graphic representation for the users to authomatically command train movements. From 1999 to 2006 she was involved in a big project for Italian Railway: eight centers for command aand control of traffic, PIS, D&M, Security. Each center manages about 80 stations. AT the beginning she worked on the detail project in the development area. Since 2002 she started the delivery activities, giving also assistance to the client, projects for new requirements, definition of scheduling. Since 2003 she has the responsibility of coordinating engineering department activities on all these systems. She was in a “continuous empowering project” to find out new solutions to make the product much more complete. From 2007 to nowadays, she works in a new area of the company (Innovation&COmpetitivness) she has the responsibility of the development of innovative projects and of the business for railway customers. The main projects are in the security area (development of a new Security Management System), risk reduction area (diagnostic wayside systems, level crossing protection).

As a result of the Chernobyl accident, a Shelter was constructed over the destroyed buildings in order to create a barrier between the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) Unit 4 and the external environment. Because of the risks related to the large quantities of nuclear material (especially long-lived radioactive materials) located in the Shelter and to its structural conditions, the EU and others international contributors funded an international plan, called Shelter Implementation Plan (SIP), to solve the problems of ChNPP Unit 4 "Shelter". In this plan framework, a specific task for monitoring the Shelter Object conditions was planned. The Integrated Automated Monitoring System (IAMS), developed by a Consortium of companies, led by Ansaldo Nucleare, is the system capable of monitoring the parameters of nuclear, radiation and industrial safety of the Shelter, providing information on the status of Shelter Object, local area and Chernobyl NPP site.

SELEX Sistemi Integrati (SELEX SI) is involved in the design, development and integration of Systems of Systems for Naval Defence, Homeland Defence, Homeland Security, Air Traffic Management and Maritime Domain Awareness. SELEX SI is focusing attention on requirement management, architecture modelling and model driven approach for the realization of systems of systems. A Company Unified Requirements Platform, has been set up to manage the requirements of all the business Products at the different levels, ensuring the bidirectional traceability of requirements, keeping track of their evolutions and changes, enabling the requirements reuse across the projects and their customizations for the specific Customer needs. Guidelines have been developed and applied to ensure a homogeneous UML modelling approach to the definition of reference architectures for different domains, which are used as an inspiration in the design of concrete architectures for specific projects. Requirements and design models are the main inputs for system implementation, including automatic generation of interfaces through Model Driven Architecture approach, which is used also in the integration, deployment and maintenance of Large Systems to produce configuration data and feed testing and integration tools. Antonino Arecchi is currently the head of System Architecture and Integration department in the Defence System Business Unit of Selex Sistemi Integrati. He works in the company since 1988, mostly in the naval domain, participating to the main naval missile defence, coastal surveillance and naval combat system projects developed by Selex Sistemi Integrati in the past 20 years. In his career he has covered the roles of FREMM program manager, head of Combat System Engineering department, head of Combat Management Systems department, project manager of Horizon Combat Management System. Before the current job, he has worked in the Software Architecture department where he has contributed to the set-up of the Company Unified Requirements Platform and the definition of architecture modelling guidelines. Fabrizio Morciano is head of of Software for Flight Data Plans and Tools department. He works in Selex Sistemi Integrati since 2002 following activities related to middleware for Air Traffic Management. He has been working on Cardamom middleware (a CORBA, CCM middleware) for 8 years in the role of Technical Architect and he represented Selex Sistemi Integrati at Object Management Group for 5 years following the standardization process of Enhanced View Of Time specification, Load Balancing specification and Application Management and System Monitoring specification

In recent years the study of the consensus problem in multi-agent systems has received a great effort by the scientific community involving several fields and many applications. More precisely, in networks of autonomous agents, “consensus” means to reach an agreement regarding a certain quantity of interest that depends on the state of all the agents. The solution of the consensus problem is obtained in presence of severely restricted communication capability. Moreover, a consensus algorithm (or protocol) is an interaction rule that specifies the information exchange between an agent and all of its neighbors on the network. This lecture intends to present the theoretical frameworks for posing and solving consensus problems in two different contexts. Firstly, we consider networked systems with discrete time dynamics that in the related literature are described by directed or undirected graphs and the associated graph Laplacian matrix. Since the standard protocols exhibit low speed of reaching a consensus for particular topologies of the graphs, new classes of convergent consensus algorithms are proposed. The talk shows the convergence properties of such iterative schemes and specifies the protocols that each agent has to use. Secondly, the lecture deals with the consensus problem over network of agents with quantized state variables. In particular, a novel distributed algorithm is presented for a multi-agent assignment problem in which a group of agents has to reach a consensus on an optimal distribution of tasks among themselves. The problem is formalized as a distributed consensus strategy that is applied to networks where each agent can perform a maximum number of tasks, each task can be assigned to a subset of agents and a cost is associated to the pair agent-task. The task assignment problem is solved when all the agents agree on the assignment that guarantees an optimal (or suboptimal) total load. Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1983 and was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983 she has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Politecnico di Bari (Italy), where she was assistant professor from 1990 till 1998 and an associate professor from 1998 till April 2012. Now she is full professor of System and Control Engineering in the same department. Her research interests include discrete event systems, Petri net, sensor networks, management and modeling of automated manufacturing systems, automatic guided vehicle systems, railway and traffic networks, supply chains, and healthcare systems. She has published around 180+ papers and one textbook on these topics. She was General Chair of the 2nd IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management, and the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.. Prof. Fanti is Associate Editor of IEEE TRANS. ON Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A and Enterprise Information Systems, guest editor of IEEE TRANS. ON Automation Science and Engineering, Enterprise Information Systems. She is vice-chair of the IEEE Italy Section, Co-Chair of the IEEE SMC Technical committee on Discrete Event Systems, Chair of the Central & Southern Italy SMC Chapter, member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.

The research discussed in the proposed lecture deals with a bridge between electronic nonlinear circuits and some aspects of human thinking. Several experiments obtained in our laboratory, where cooperative and competitive distributed circuits and systems are used, are discussed. The case studies we present explain in detail as aesthetics can be viewed as an emergent behaviour of dynamical systems. In particular, the following experiments will be dealt with: 1) The generation of three dimensional shapes by 3D large scale arrays of dynamical systems with chaotic behaviour . 2) The generation of patterns equal to that appearing in modern art by using Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNNs) . 3) The 3D dynamical artistic trajectories generated by using synchronized circuits in controlled robots that can be related to kinematic art. The three case studies can be considered examples of the fact that art arises as an emergent behaviour. Moreover, patterns generated by a one-dimensional array of cooperative cells arranged in the so-called Wolfram Machine will be also introduced. Finally, by using cooperative three-cells based electronic circuits with chaotic behavior the universal concept of "Time" will be discussed. Luigi Fortuna was born in Siracuse, Italy, in 1953. He received the degree of electrical engineering (cum laude) from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 1977.He is a Full Professor of system theory with the Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy. He was the Coordinator of the courses in electronic engineering and the Head of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi (DIEES). Since 2005, he has been the Dean of the Engineering Faculty, Catania. He currently teaches complex adaptive systems and robust control. He has published more than 450 technical papers and is the coauthor of ten scientific books, among which: Chua's Circuit implementations (World Scientific, 2009), Bio-Inspired Emergent Control of Locomotion Systems (World Scientific, 2004), Soft-Computing (Springer 2001), Nonlinear Non Integer Order Circuits and Systems (World Scientific 2001), Cellular Neural Networks (Springer 1999), Neural Networks in Multidimensional Domains (Springer 1998), Model Order Reduction in Electrical Engineering (Springer 1994), and Robust Control-An Introduction (Springer 1993). His scientific interests include robust control, nonlinear science and complexity, chaos, cellular neural networks, softcomputing strategies for control. robotics, micronanosensor and smart devices for control, and nanocellular neural networks modeling. Dr. Fortuna was the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Chairman of the CNN Technical Committee, IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer from 2001 to 2002, and IEEE Chairman of the IEEE CAS Chapter Central-South Italy. Mattia Frasca received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Automation Engineering in 2003, at the University of Catania, Italy, where he is currently research associate. His scientific interests include nonlinear systems and chaos, Cellular Neural Networks, complex systems and bio-inspired robotics. He is involved in many research projects and collaborations with industries and academic centres. He is referee for many international journals and conferences. He was in the organizing committee of the 10th "Experimental Chaos Conference" and co-chair of the "4th International Conference on Physics and Control". He is coauthor of three research monographs (with World Scientific): one on locomotion control of bio-inspired robots, one on self-organizing systems and one on the Chua's Circuit. He published more than 150 papers on refereed international journals and international conference proceedings and is co-author of two international patents.

Panel members are: Prof. Roberto Sacile (Genoa University), Dr. Dan DeLaurentis (Purdue University), Dr. Cornelius Ncube (Bournemouth University), Dr. Werner Steinhögl (European Commission).