@proceedings {mathequations,
	title = {Mathematical Equations as Executable Models of Mechanical Systems},
	year = {2010},
	abstract = {<p>Cyber-physical systems comprise digital components that directly interact with a physical environment. Specifying the behavior desired of such systems requires analytical modeling of physical phenomena. Similarly, testing them requires simulation of continuous systems. While numerous tools support later stages of developing simulation codes, there is still a large gap between analytical modeling and building running simulators. This gap significantly impedes the ability of scientists and engineers to develop novel cyber-physical systems. We propose bridging this gap by automating the mapping from analytical models to simulation codes. Focusing on mechanical systems as an important class of models of physical systems, we study the form of analytical models that arise in this domain, along with the process by which domain experts map them to executable codes. We show that the key steps needed to automate this mapping are 1) a light-weight analysis to partially direct equations, 2) a binding-time analysis, and 3) an efficient implementation of symbolic differentiation. As such, our work pinpoints and highlights a number of limitations in the state of the art in tool support of simulation, and shows how some of these limitations can be overcome.</p>},
	attachments = {https://mahilab.rice.edu/sites/default/files/publications/zhu2010ieee.pdf},
	author = {Angela Yun Zhu and Edwin Westbrook and Jun Inoue and Alexandre Chapoutot and Cherif Salama and Marisa Peralta and Travis Martin and Walid Taha and Robert Cartwright and O{\textquoteright}Malley, M.K.}
}
@proceedings {920,
	title = {Implementing Haptic Feedback Environments from High-level Descriptions},
	year = {2009},
	attachments = {https://mahilab.rice.edu/sites/default/files/publications/zhu2009shoes.pdf},
	author = {Angela Yun Zhu and Jun Inoue and Marisa Peralta and Walid Taha and O{\textquoteright}Malley, M.K. and Powell, Dane}
}
