Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems

规划资助：可持续城市生态系统工程研究中心

• 批准号: 1937135
• 负责人: Adolfo Matamoros
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937135&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sustainable Urban EcosystemsProposal Abstract-Part 1: The Engineering Research Center for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems will develop transforming technologies for one of the most important societal problems we presently face: managing the growth of large population centers so it remains sustainable and does not harm the safety and wellbeing of residents. To achieve this mission, the center will develop science and engineering systems needed by authorities and the private sector to make decisions that yield the most benefit to urban residents. Sustainable growth of large population centers is a very complex societal problem that will require advances in data science and engineering to improve efficiency, minimize the consumption of natural resources, and enhance the ability to adapt to disruptions of different types and magnitudes. The research center will address this need by developing distributed technologies such as instrument arrays, cloud computing, intelligent systems, and connected devices that enhance performance, eliminate inefficiencies, and allow large urban centers to cope with increasing demand for services, particularly during strenuous circumstances. . -Part 2: The Engineering Research Center for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems will develop transforming technologies for one of the most important societal problems we presently face: engineering of urban ecosystems to achieve sustainable growth without harming the safety and wellbeing of residents. Sustainability compels dual objectives of minimizing consumption of natural resources under normal operating conditions and possessing the ability to adapt rapidly and efficiently to disruptions of different orders of magnitude and duration. To achieve this mission, the center will develop the underlying science needed to create a distributed sensor and data science framework to assist authorities and the private sector make decisions most beneficial to urban residents. The proposed center will enable research and technology to improve urban infrastructure resilience through real-time data processing, storage, and dissemination, accelerating processing of large datasets in digital communities. Data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence experts will advance fundamental knowledge in their collective domains. Computing researchers will have access to the complete data flow chain and be able to study networking weaknesses against cyber-attacks. The networking will include narrowband and broadband wireless and wired data communication, networking with traditional and emerging sensor cloud environments, and various interfaces. Researchers will develop urban ecosystem and health informatics applications capable of exploring interdependences between these domains. Infrastructure researchers will leverage these advances to improve efficiency and resilience of urban infrastructures using real-time data during normal operating conditions, and during different types of disruptions such as cyberattacks, hurricanes, floods, and chemical spills. Through this planning grant, a diverse group on stakeholders will join forces to develop consensus on advances in science and engineering needed to achieve sustainable growth of urban ecosystems through convergent research. The outcomes of the planning will provide a roadmap to guide future research efforts and foster new collaborations not previously considered. Research on sustainable urban ecosystems will have a broad impact on society due to the large percentage of the population it affects (90% by 2050). The impact of inadequate services and disruptions is unevenly distributed among communities due to different exposures and vulnerabilities, with the highest levels of vulnerability and low adaptive capacity linked to underserved and underinvested communities. The planning grant will benefit large communities by strengthening collaboration between stakeholders to improve quality of life and resilience of urban ecosystems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

规划赠款：可持续城市生态系统工程研究中心摘要摘要部分：可持续城市生态系统工程研究中心将开发我们目前面临的最重要的社会问题之一的转型技术：管理大型人口中心的增长，因此它仍然可持续并且不会损害居民的安全和福祉。为了实现这一任务，该中心将开发当局和私营部门所需的科学和工程系统，以做出为城市居民带来最大好处的决策。大人口中心的可持续增长是一个非常复杂的社会问题，它将需要数据科学和工程学的进步，以提高效率，最大程度地减少自然资源的消费，并增强适应不同类型和大小的破坏的能力。研究中心将通过开发分布式技术（例如仪器阵列，云计算，智能系统和连接的设备）来满足这一需求，从而提高性能，消除效率低下，并允许大型城市中心应对对服务的增加，尤其是在艰苦的情况下。 。 - 第2部分：可持续城市生态系统工程研究中心将针对我们目前面临的最重要的社会问题之一开发转型技术：城市生态系统的工程，以实现可持续增长而不会损害居民的安全和福祉。可持续性迫使双重目标是最大程度地减少自然资源在正常工作条件下的消耗，并具有快速有效地适应不同数量级和持续时间的破坏的能力。为了实现这一任务，该中心将开发创建分布式传感器和数据科学框架的基本科学，以协助当局，私营部门为城市居民提供最有益的决策。拟议的中心将使研究和技术能够通过实时数据处理，存储和传播，加速数字社区中大型数据集的加速处理，从而改善城市基础设施的弹性。数据分析，机器学习和人工智能专家将促进其集体领域的基本知识。计算研究人员将可以访问完整的数据流链，并能够研究针对网络攻击的网络弱点。该网络将包括窄带和宽带无线和有线数据通信，与传统和新兴传感器云环境的网络以及各种接口。研究人员将开发城市生态系统和健康信息学应用程序，能够探索这些领域之间的相互依存。基础设施研究人员将利用这些进步在正常工作条件下使用实时数据以及在不同类型的干扰（例如网络攻击，飓风，洪水和化学溢出物）中利用实时数据来提高城市基础设施的效率和弹性。通过这项计划赠款，一个利益相关者的多元化小组将联合起来，通过收敛研究实现城市生态系统的可持续发展所需的科学和工程学发展共识。计划的结果将提供一个路线图，以指导未来的研究工作，并培养以前未考虑的新合作。可持续城市生态系统的研究将对社会产生广泛的影响，因为它影响的人口比例很大（到2050年90％）。由于不同的暴露和脆弱性，服务和中断不足和中断的影响不均匀地分布在社区之间，其脆弱性和低适应能力水平与服务不足和投资不足的社区有关。计划赠款将通过加强利益相关者之间的合作来提高城市生态系统的生活质量和韧性，从而使大型社区受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准的评估值得的支持。

项目成果

A Survey on Ethereum Systems Security: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defenses

• DOI: 10.1145/3391195
• 发表时间: 2020-06-01
• 期刊: ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: Chen, Huashan;Pendleton, Marcus;Xu, Shouhuai
• 通讯作者: Xu, Shouhuai