A challenge is to develop cyber-physical system scenarios that reflect the diversity and complexity of real-life cyber-physical systems in the research questions that they address. Time-bounded collaborative events, such as hackathons, jams and sprints, are increasingly used as a means of bringing groups of individuals together, in order to explore challenges and develop solutions. This paper describes our experiences, using a science hackathon to bring individual researchers together, in order to develop a common use-case implemented on a shared CPS testbed platform that embodies the diversity in their own security research questions. A qualitative study of the event was conducted, in order to evaluate the success of the process, with a view to improving future similar events.
@article{arxiv.1811.03974,
title = {Science Hackathons for Cyberphysical System Security Research: Putting CPS testbed platforms to good use},
author = {Simon N. Foley and Fabien Autrel and Edwin Bourget and Thomas Cledel and Stephane Grunenwald and Jose Rubio Hernan and Alexandre Kabil and Raphael Larsen and Vivien M. Rooney and Kirsten Vanhulst},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03974},
year = {2018}
}