DARPA's Networked Embedded Software Technology (NEST) program seeks novel approaches to the design and implementation of software for networked embedded systems. We are involved with a project titled Distributed Adaptive Constrained Optimization. In this project (started in April 2001), we intend to develop a new approach for embedded constraint solvers that can adapt to the complexity of real-time problems and be distributed within large-scale systems by blending complexity analysis and control with adaptive problem decomposition and solving. Project members are Markus Fromherz (PI), Lara Crawford, Haitham Hindi, Wheeler Ruml, and Ying Zhang.

The following is the list of main meetings in the program so far:

• NEST PI Meeting (Napa, June 2001)
• NEST OEP Working Group Meeting (Huntington Beach, Sept. 2001)
• NEST PI Meeting (Napa, February 2002)
• NEST PI Meeting, Demo (Bar Harbor, July 2002)
• NEST PI Meeting, Demo (San Diego, January 2003)
• NEST PI Meeting (San Francisco, July 2003)
• NEST PI Meeting (Santa Fe, December 2003)

See the publications page for further information.

For more information on the program, see the Proposer Information Pamphlet.