In August I attended the International Symposium on Resilient Control (https://secure.inl.gov/isrcs2012/), which presents research aimed to enhance resilience in next-generation control systems. Our paper, titled "A Dual-Process Cognitive Model for Testing Resilient Control Systems", was awarded Best Paper in the Human Systems track. It is available at /sites/default/files/files/blythe_isrcs12.pdf. The symposium included many interesting presentations in four tracks: Complex Networked Control Systems, Data Fusion, Cyber Awareness and Human Systems.

A workshop on Experimental Security Panoramas for Critical System Protection was held just before the symposium, and was well attended. Speakers covered issues in gathering and using experimental data for security across a variety of systems. For example, Mathias Ekstedt spoke on a study of the Baltic Cyber Shield exercise, and Alex Kilpatrick presented lessons learned on biometric security.

The symposium also featured several great invited speakers, including Jeanette Wing, Mark Maybury and Tamer Basar. The presentations from the main conference, workshop and invited speakers can all be found on the symposium website.