The committee for the Outstanding Student Paper Prize 2024 of the Technical Committee on Smart Cities announced this year’s prestigious award recipients. Among six national nominations, one paper written by two CISE students stood out for its innovative contributions to the field of smart cities. Ehsan Sabouni and H.M. Sabbir Ahmad and their collaborators are […]
By Brendan Galvin, CISE Staff Writer The National Highway Traffic and Safety Association reports that 94% of serious car crashes are due to human error. Christos Cassandras, Boston University Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, and a co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE), […]
The emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and the need to guarantee safety in making them a reality has motivated us to develop a new framework adapting optimal control theory to safety-critical systems and demonstrating its use for AVs in signal-free traffic networks. The standard trade-off we face in control system design is achieving a desired […]
Cassandras is working on a Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation project entitled “Creating a global open research platform to better understand social sustainability using data from a real-life smart village” as part of a partnership between Boston University and Red Hat housed at the Hariri Institute of Computing. The goal of the project is to […]
This new book presents the concept of Control Barrier Function (CBF), which captures the evolution of safety requirements during the execution of a system and can be used to enforce safety. It discusses how safety can be guaranteed via both theoretical and application perspectives and how it can be easily implemented in real-time systems that […]
The Third Edition of “Introduction to Discrete Event Systems” was published in November 2021. The book, originally published in 1999, is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified modeling framework that transcends […]
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. Click here to read more.
