Analysis and decentralized synthesis of distributed control systems

在上一次NSERC资金再分配活动中，电气和计算机工程提交的材料强调了一个事实，即在2000年生产的83亿个CPU中，80%进入了嵌入式系统，6%进入了机器人，12%进入了汽车。 它询问了无数的智能设备将如何相互连接，它们将如何通信，以及它们将使用什么样的管理结构，并强调这些设计挑战需要概念性（而不是纯粹的技术性）的新见解，指出即将发生的巨大变化“，重点从信息和通信技术转向信息和通信本身。''

In the last NSERC funding reallocations exercise, the submission on electrical and computer engineering highlighted the fact that, of the 8.3 billion CPUs produced in 2000, 80% found their way into embedded systems, 6% into robots and 12% into automobiles. It asked how myriad intelligent appliances would be interconnected, how they would communicate, and what kind of management structures they would use, and stressed that these design challenges required new insights of a conceptual (as opposed to purely technological) nature, pointing to a coming sea change "where the emphasis shifts from information and communication technologies to information and communication per se.''