ERCIM News 97
April 2014
Special theme Cyber-Physical Systems
Guest editors Maria Domenica Di Benedetto (University of L’Aquila), Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (CNRS, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes) and Erwin Schoitsch (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Keynote - The Importance of Cyber-Physical Systems for Industry
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by Clas Jacobson
The presence and importance of Cyber Physical Systems is intended as the orchestration of networked computational resources with multi-physics (e.g., mechanical, chemical, electrical) systems in industry cannot be overemphasized. The engineering problems faced daily is managing dynamics, time, and concurrency in heterogeneous (interconnected) systems where the amount and complexity of intelligence (the cyber part) is growing rapidly and where software implementations are a major portion of system design, validation and ultimately verification. Research and education in this field is of strategic importance for business for years to come. Industry and Government in United States have posed CPS at the center of the engineering research agenda since 2007 when the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) highlighted CPS as the “number one” Priority for Federal Investments in Networking and Information Technology). Since 2010, the European research and industrial community has focused on CPS as paradigms for the future of systems. Acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering) developed an Integrated Research Agenda for Cyber-Physical Systems published in 2011.
Cyber-Physical Systems - Introduction to the Special Theme
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by Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto and Erwin Schoitsch
Embedded systems - some visible, others integrated into every day equipment and devices – are becoming increasingly pervasive, and increasingly responsible for ensuring our comfort, health, services, safety and security. In combination and close interaction with the unpredictable real-world environment and humans, they become “Cyber-Physical Systems” (CPS), which act independently, co-operatively or as “systems-of-systems” composed of interconnected autonomous systems originally independently developed to fulfill dedicated tasks. Some of these systems may be older legacy systems.
Cyber-Physical Systems: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
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by Ezio Bartocci, Oliver Hoeftberger and Radu Grosu
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the next generation of embedded ICT systems that are becoming pervasive in every aspect of our daily life. In this article we discuss some of the theoretical and practical challenges that we are currently facing in this area.
- Modelling, Analysis and Co-Design of Wireless Control Networks
- Observers for Nonlinear Systems with Delayed Measurements
- Platform-Aware Design of Embedded Controllers
- Designing Cyber-Physical Systems for Smart Infrastructures: The Rainbow Platform
- Cloud-Based Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
- DEECo: Software Engineering for Smart CPS
- The Software-Defined Network Revolution
- Securing Interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems through Strategic Information Sharing
- A European Roadmap on Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems
- System Development: The DESTECS/Crescendo Technology
- Cassting: Synthesizing Complex Systems Using Non-Zero-Sum Games
- Dependable System of Systems Engineering: the COMPASS Project
- Towards a Unified Theory for the Control of CPS: A Symbolic Approach
- Information Assurance System in the Arrowhead Project
- Non-Asymptotic Estimation for Online Systems: Finite-Time Algorithms and Applications
- Soft Real-Time Scheduling Approaches in Embedded Control Systems
- Requirements Engineering Patterns for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Management of the Interconnection of Intermittent Photovoltaic Systems through a DC Link and Storage
- Multi-Terminal High Voltage Direct Current Networks for Renewable Energy Sources
- Smart Water Management: Key Issues and Promises from a Distributed Control and Observation Perspective
- SEAM4US: Intelligent Energy Management for Public Underground Spaces through Cyber-Physical Systems
- Safety Criticality Analysis of Multi-Agent Air Traffic Management Systems: A Compositional Hybrid Systems’ Approach
- A Comprehensive Port Operations Management System
- Security in the Era of Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems
- Optogenetics to Unravel the Mechanisms of Parkinsonian Symptoms and Optimize Deep Brain Stimulation
- Big Data in Healthcare: Intensive Care Units as a Case Study
- SEMEOTICONS: Face Reading to Help People stay Healthy
- DYMASOS - Dynamic Management of Physically Coupled Systems of Systems
- 3DHOP: A Novel Technological Solution for the Development of Online Virtual Museums
- The Entity Registry System: Publishing and Consuming Linked Data in Poorly Connected Environments
- Spin-Up: A European Project Aimed at Propelling University Spin-off Growth
- A System for the Discovery and Selection of FLOSS Projects
- VITRO – Vision-Testing for Robustness
- Building Systems of Aerial Drones
- MediaEval 2013 Evaluation Campaign