Science and Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 11441)

Abstract

Today, a new category of engineering systems is emerging that combines the physical with the computational in a holistic way: Cyber-physical systems (CPS). The key property of these systems is that functionality and salient system properties are emerging from an intensive interaction of physical and computational components. Traditional separation along engineering disciplines in the design of such systems leads to various quality, maintainability and evolutionary problems, and integrated theories and engineering techniques are urgently needed. The purpose of the seminar is to bring together researchers from the field, from both academia and industry to discuss the new scientific foundations and engineering principles for the vastly emerging field of CPS