Resilient Control in Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems:Guest Editorial

Giuseppe Franzè  (SM' 19), received the Laurea degree in computer engineering in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering in 1999 from the University of Calabria, Italy. Since 2015 he is an Associate Professor at the University of Calabria with the DIMES Department. He authored or co-authored more than 160 research papers in archival journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. His current research interests include constrained predictive control, nonlinear systems, networked control systems, control under constraints and control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems, resilient control for cyber-physical systems. In November-December 2019, he was a visiting professor at Concordia University (CA) with the ECCE Department. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE-CoDIT 2019 Conference, Paris, France. He currently serves as a Associate Editor of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Resilient Control in Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems"  IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Since January 2018, he is Graduate Program Director of the Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria.e-mail:giuseppe.franze@unical.it

Giancarlo Fortino  (SM'12) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), senior research fellow at the ICAR-CNR Institute, and CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT -Shenzhen. He is the director of the SPEME lab at Unical as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT and SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. His research interests include agent-based computing, wireless (body) sensor networks, and IoT. He is author of 450+ papers in int'l journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of many int'l journals such as IEEE TAC, IEEE THMS, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, JNCA, EAAI, etc. He organized as chair many int'l workshops and conferences (100+), was involved in a huge number of int'l conferences/workshops (500+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (60+). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCalS.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems. Fortino is currently member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.e-mail:g.fortino@unical.it

Xianghui Cao  (S'08-M'11-SM'16) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Senior Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. He is currently a Professor with the School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include cyber-physical systems, industrial Internet of Things, wireless networked control, and network security. He served as the Technical Program Co-Chair for The Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation in 2019, the Symposium Co-Chair for ICNC 2017 and IEEE/CIC ICCC 2015, and an International Program Committee member for IFAC CPHS 2020. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Acta Automatica Sinica, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He was a recipient of the First Prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China in 2017 and the Best Paper Runner-Up Award from ACM MobiHoc in 2014.e-mail: xhcao@seu.edu.cn

Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè  is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Civil, Energy, Environment and Materials Engineering at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC), Italy. He is director of the Network and Complex Systems (NeCS) Laboratory at UNIRC and member of IEEE. His main research interests include distributed artificial intelligence, agent-based computing, recommender systems, trust and reputation systems and IoT systems. He is Associate Editor of E-Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier) and Big Data and Cognitive Computing (MDPI) journals and guest editor of special issues. e-mail: sarne@unirc.it

Zhen Song  (S'02-M'07-SM'17) received the B.S. degree in automation from Beijing Inst. Tech., Beijing, China, in 1997. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Utah State University, UT, USA, in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Currently, he is the CTO of First State IoT, China. He was a senior data scientist at Siemens Smart Infrastructure from 2018 to 2019. From 2006 to 2018, he worked for~Siemens Corporate Technology, Princeton, NJ, USA, where he has been the principal investigator of government research projects sponsored by DOD, DOE, NRL, ONR, ARL~and New York State. His research interests include IIoT, prognostic, machine learning, optimal control, sensor networks. He has more than 30 patents and 50 publications, including a monograph published by Springer. He was a session co-chair of IEEE ACC and IEEE CASE conferences in 2007 and 2017, and a plenary speaker in IEEE PES conference 2018. He serves as an associated editor of IEEE JAS. He won the 2nd~place 2005 Smart Dust competition in UC Berkeley and the 3rd~place best paper award of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium in Princeton University 2007. e-mail: ZhenSong23931@gmail.com