Cooperative Agreement 70NANB19H063

This $299,839 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to develop authority distribution techniques for resilient communication networks. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and education. Specifically, the grant will fund three interrelated research thrusts over a 30-month period ending January 2025. The first thrust...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, totaling $978,924, will fund research from June 2022 to May 2026 at Harvard University. The award will support the development of theoretical foundations for trust-centered resilience in distributed coordination and optimization of multi-agent systems in the presence of adversaries. Researchers will establish analytical frameworks to efficiently leverage stochastic side information...

The National Science Foundation awarded Princeton University a $411,476 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop the theoretical foundations of trust-centered resilience for distributed coordination and optimization of multi-agent systems in the presence of adversaries. Specifically, the funding will support research from June 2022 to May 2026 to establish analytical frameworks and efficient exploitation of stochastic information...

This three-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Syracuse University to develop robust and decentralized decision-making policies for unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled wireless networks. Specifically, the researchers will design intelligent algorithms to jointly address mobility, connectivity, and resource management...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of new technology to verify network-wide properties of dynamic data planes at Princeton University from October 2022 through September 2025. Specifically, the researchers will create formal specification and verification tools to check network configurations prior to deployment and monitor configurations as they execute. These tools will use a...

This $1,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the establishment of the "RESILIENT-NET" initiative. The key objectives are to (i) build strategic links among U.S. and international research networks focused on urban resilience, in order to synergize complementary scientific expertise, and (ii) prepare U.S. students and early-career researchers to address future urban resilience challenges...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $1,009,600 to Arizona State University for research titled "Collaborative Research: SATC: Core: Medium: Foundations of Trust-Centered Multi-Agent Distributed Coordination." The funding period is from June 15, 2022 through May 31, 2026. The award supports the development of theoretical foundations for trust-centered resilience in distributed coordination and optimization of...

This $400,601 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop rigorous scientific mechanisms that enable resilience in large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a focus on connected and autonomous transportation systems (CATS). The key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling cyber, physical, and human assets and their interconnections, as well as economic and policy constraints, to...

Arizona State University was awarded an $813,331 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to investigate algorithmic theory and distributed computing problems for dynamic networks. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 will support research into asynchronous concurrency and adaptive self-organization in anonymous dynamic networks. Specifically, the University will design distributed systems that can adapt their behavior...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $283,855 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research into more reliable network updates. The Colorado State University researchers will develop new game-theoretic models and algorithms to synthesize update controllers that are robust to failures and changing conditions. They will also create tools to explain update failures and allow operators to choose between alternative plans. The researchers will...