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[...]... with background research Craig Kaplan of the University of Washington assisted with cover design Jeffrey Risberg of TIBCO Software, Inc.; Maja Mataric of the University of Southern California; Gaurav Sukhatme of the University of Southern California; Scott Stadler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory; Gregory J Pottie of the University of California at Los Angeles; and Steven... Lea, Sony Distributed Systems Laboratory; K Venkatesh Prasad, Ford Research Laboratory; Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania; Karen Sollins, National Science Foundation; and Keith Uncapher, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Thanks are also due to those who sponsored the study David Tennenhouse, formerly the director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Information... that are due to the physically embedded nature of the collaborative control tasks and the massive numbers of elements, all combined with the relatively constrained capabilities of individual elements Adaptive coordination is a fairly new area of investigation, particularly as it applies to EmNets To obtain necessary adaptability in EmNets, research is needed in three areas: exploiting massive redundancy... enable greater experimentation Greater collaboration between these offices would facilitate rich and significant experimentation in EmNet-related areas 12 EMBEDDED, EVERYWHERE National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has worked in a variety of areas to help make information technology more secure, more reliable, more usable, and more interoperable All of these characteristics are crucial to... will make up an EmNet; this makes interoperability a key concern Finally, EmNets will often be used and interacted with by people who are not experts in EmNet-related technology Managing all of these constraints and creating a system that functions properly for the application domain while remaining understandable and manageable by human operators, users, and—in many cases—casual passersby, is a large... progress in this arena The committee generated eight overarching themes that intersect the three key areas for research described above (self-configuration and adaptive coordination, trustworthiness, and computational models) Research into all of the themes is required before EmNets can fulfill their potential Research in broadly relevant areas such as networking and usability that pervade many of the themes... usable by persons with little or no formal training Unfortunately, usability and safety often conflict, and decisions on trade-offs will need to be made Understanding the way people create mental models of the systems they use and interact with is a good way for designers to begin to address the issues of usability and manageability In particular, more research is needed in designing for a range of. .. Technology Office (ITO) and now vice president of research at Intel Corporation, provided the original impetus for the study, identifying networked systems of embedded computers as a potentially revolutionary set of technologies and laying out a vision for the field Shankar Sastry and Janos Sztipanovits ensured continued DARPA support for the project as they expanded ITO’s research efforts in EmNets of different... further research effort, including hazard analysis for EmNets, validating requirements, designing for and verifying safety, and ensuring safety in upgraded hardware Security is difficult to achieve in virtually all information systems, but EmNets again present particular challenges The networking of embedded devices will greatly increase the number of possible points of failure, making security analysis... monitored, especially in the case of wide-ranging sensor networks, is a challenge, and acquiring consent in a meaningful fashion is an even greater challenge Determining how to handle the vast amounts of personal information that will be collected and implementing privacy policies once they are decided on is a large area ripe for research 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Finally, and related to all of the above, EmNets . Assistant DAVID DRAKE, Project Assistant DAVID PADGHAM, Research Assistant BRANDYE WILLIAMS, Office Assistant vi Preface C ontinued advances in information. class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Embedded, Everywhere A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers Committee on Networked Systems of Embedded