MCPS'18, the 8th Medical Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, was a one-day event co-located with CPS Week 2018 in Porto, Portugal. The objective of the workshop was to provide opportunities for researchers, industrial practitioners, caregivers, and government agencies to demonstrate innovative development methods and tools, present experience reports, discuss open challenges, and explore ideas for future development of MCPS. Contributions were solicited on all aspects of system development, including specification, design, analysis, implementation, documentation, and certification of Medical CPS. Demonstrations of existing tools for design and analysis of Medical CPS were also encouraged.
Topics of interest included:
- Foundations for Integration of Medical Device Systems/Models: Component-based technologies for accelerated design and verifiable system integration, Systems of systems, Medical devices plug-and-play to support interoperability of heterogeneous systems;
- Enabling Technologies for Future Medical Devices: Implantable regulatory devices, networked biosensors, tele-surgery, robotic surgery, physiologic signal QoS (Quality of Service), Medical CPS in developing countries;
- Distributed Control & Sensing of Networked Medical Device Systems: Robust, verifiable, fault-tolerant control of uncertain, multi-modal systems;
- Medical Device Plug-and-Play Ecosystem: Requirements and emerging standards for supporting interoperability in the clinical environment, including "black box" data recording, device authorization, and data security;
- Human-Machine Interfaces: Identification of use-related safety requirements, model-based analysis of medical user interface design, user studies involving medical devices, modelling and analysis of use-errors with medical devices;
- Patient Modeling & Simulation: Large scale, high fidelity organ/patient models for design and testing;
- Embedded, Real-Time, Networked System Infrastructures for High Confidence Medical Devices: Architecture, platform, middleware, resource management, QoS (Quality of Service), Dynamic interoperation, including plug-and-play operation;
- High Confidence Medical Device Software Development & Assurance: Care-giver requirements solicitation and capture, design and implementation, V&V (Verification and Validation), Heterogeneity in environment, architecture, platforms in medical devices;
- Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Mobile medical Apps, data analytics, security, logging, forensics, and privacy;
- Medical Practice-driven Models and Requirements: User-centric design, risk understanding, and use/misuse modeling in medical practice, management of failures in a clinical environment, modeling of operational scenarios, including medical devices, care-givers, patients;
- Certification of medical devices: Quantifiable incremental certification of medical devices and interoperable medical systems, role of design tools and COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) components, challenges with self-adaptive medical systems.
This year's edition included:
- A keynote speech "A Reference Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Medical Devices with an Exemplar PCA Pump Device" given by John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, USA
- Ten communications, four of which took the form of poster lighting talks. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers.
We would like to thank the PC members for doing such a great job in writing high-quality reviews and participating in the electronic PC discussion. We would like to thank all authors who submitted their work to another successful edition of the MCPS workshop. We are grateful to the CPS Week Organisation Committee, who hosted our workshop. The logistics of our job as Program Chairs were facilitated by the EasyChair system. We thank the editors of ACM SIGBED who accepted the papers for publication.
MCPS 2018 Co-Chairs
- Philip Asare, Bucknell University, USA
- Lu Feng, University of Virginia, USA
- Paolo Masci, INESC-TEC and Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- James Weimer, University of Pennsylvania, USA
