Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems  (IHCS)

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Apply to PD 05-7564 as follows:

For full proposals submitted via FastLane: standard Grant Proposal Guidelines apply.
For full proposals submitted via Grants.gov: NSF Grants.gov Application Guide; A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov Guidelines apply (Note: The NSF Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf)

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SYNOPSIS

The Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program intends to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in collaborative research and education environments for multidisciplinary integrative activities. IHCS supports innovative research in micro and nano systems, communication systems, and cyber systems that integrate physical devices and components with computational intelligence and networks. The goal is to design, develop and implement new nano/micro/macro complex and hybrid systems with engineering solutions for a variety of domain-specific applications in healthcare, environment, communications, disaster mitigation, homeland security, transportation, manufacturing, and other systems-related areas. IHCS also supports integration technologies at both the intra-and inter-chip levels that target new and advanced radio frequency (RF), millimeter wave and optical wireless and hybrid communication systems architectures as well as sensing and imaging at terahertz frequencies. IHCS supports the development of innovative hardware, signal processing and software architectures for emerging areas of cyber systems for design, integration and implementation of multi-scale and multi-level complex systems that will enable visualizing, analyzing and reconfiguring of emergent behavior for various applications. IHCS offers new challenges, at all levels of systems integration, to address future societal needs.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

Cyber Systems:

• Integrated Hybrid Optical and Electronic Systems for High-Speed Computation and Communications
• Multi-Scale Dynamic System Integration for Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Engineered Complex and Hybrid Systems
• Ambient Intelligent Systems for Homes of the Future
• Networked Intelligent Surveillance for Security of Critical Infrastructures
• Integrated Distributed Sensing and Actuation in Telemedicine and Robotic Surgical Systems
• Robust electric power grids integrating power, communication and self-organizing networks
• Globally Interactive Environment for Engineering Education.

Nano and Microsytems:

• System-in-a-package
• System-on-a-chip
• Miniature Implantable Systems that Combine Sensors, Actuators, Computational Algorithms and Microcircuits for Biomedical Applications Ranging from Drug Delivery to Microsurgery
• Organic and Silicon-based Hybrid Systems

Optical, Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems:

• Terahertz (THz) Sensing and Imaging
• Wireless Networks of Handheld or Wearable Computing Devices Incorporating Transmitters, Receivers, Antennas and Sensors
• Distributed Network with Dynamic Allocation of Bandwidth and Efficient Seamless Data Transference
• Intra- and inter-chip Networking and Communications
• Mixed Signals

Proposals for the IHCS program may involve collaborative research to capture the breadth of expertise needed for such multidisciplinary integrative activities. ECCS will consider supporting a limited number of small team proposals of three or more Investigators from different disciplines and/or universities.  Researchers for small team proposals are invited to propose, and are encouraged to discuss, with the IHCS Program Directors, potential innovative systems and associated areas of research.

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