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HSCC '17: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
ACM2017 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
HSCC '17: 20th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA April 18 - 20, 2017
ISBN:
978-1-4503-4590-3
Published:
13 April 2017
Sponsors:

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Abstract

Welcome to the proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'17), held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. HSCC is the premier research conference on foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems. It covers design, analysis, control synthesis techniques and their applications in various domains such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, mixed signal circuits, infrastructure networks, as well as in biochemical models that demonstrate hybrid behavior.

HSCC'17 is held as part of the 10th Cyber Physical Systems Week (CPS Week'17), and located with the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), the Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), the International Conference on Internet-ofthings: Design and Implementation (IOTDI), and several CPSWeek Workshops.

There were 76 submissions to HSCC 2017---a number that is comparable to recent HSCCs held in the United States. 25 regular papers and 4 tool and case study papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference program. The overall acceptance rate for the conference is 38%; for regular papers the acceptance rate is 39%. More information about previous editions of HSCC can be found at http://www.hscc-conference.org.

This year we introduced a light version of double blind reviewing to improve the quality and integrity of the review process. The process is time-tested in other conferences like SIGCOMM, PLDI, and CAV. The policies and process were disseminated in the HSCC 2017 website (http://hscc2017.ece.illinois.edu) as well as in the Calls For Papers. Author's names were omitted from submissions and authors had to cite their own papers in the third person. Fifty Program Committee (PC) members and their sub-reviewers provided at least 4 reviews for each of the anonymized submissions. The reviews were sent to authors for a 5-day rebuttal period. For the rebuttal, author identities were disclosed to the reviewers, and optional auxiliary material from the authors (proofs etc.) were made available to the PC. The final decisions were made after two weeks of vigorous on-line discussions amongst the PC members.

Most of the technical program committee members provided excellent, in-depth reviews. We checked that all reviews provided the appropriate level of detail, gave actionable feedback to authors, and struck the right tone. In addition, reviewers were directed to read and respond to author responses, and a summary of the on-line discussions was included to provide feedback to the authors.

In addition to the papers appearing in the proceedings, HSCC demos and posters were presented at the joint CPSWeek Poster and Demo session. The Demo and Poster session for HSCC was chaired by Akshay Rajhans.

Since 2014, HSCC features a Repeatability Evaluation (RE) process, which draws upon several similar efforts at other conferences (SIGMOD, SAS, CAV, ECOOP, OOPSLA, all of them having an emphasis on "artifacts"). Re-creation of computational elements presented in research papers is challenging because details of the implementation are unavoidably absent in the paper. The goal of the HSCC RE process is to improve the reproducibility of computational results in the papers selected for the conference. The effort was led by Sergiy Bogomolov, aided by an RE Committee of 21 researchers, providing at least 3 evaluations to each of the 14 submitted RE packages. The papers that have passed the RE process are highlighted in the proceedings with an RE stamp on their first page.

HSCC 2017 features three awards: a best student paper award, a best poster/demo award, and a best RE award. These awards have been administered by the Awards Committee, headed by Ricardo Sanfelice. A significant highlight of HSCC 2017 is the 20th Anniversary Invited Talk by Russ Tedrake of MIT, in addition to several CPSWeek'17 plenary talks.

Contributors
  • National School of Advanced Techniques
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Acceptance Rates

HSCC '17 Paper Acceptance Rate29of76submissions,38%Overall Acceptance Rate153of373submissions,41%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
HSCC '21772735%
HSCC '17762938%
HSCC '16652843%
HSCC '14692942%
HSCC '13864047%
Overall37315341%