Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are omnipresent and affect ever more aspects of our lives. Most current visions for addressing general challenges of our modern societies, such as mobility, energy, production, or health care, rely on CPS of unknown complexity and flexibility. Examples are interconnected, automatically driving cars, highly adaptive, localised energy network management systems that utilise locally transformed renewable energy forms, or “Industry 4.0” scenarios, where the power of industrialised production is highly software-driven and networked. This enables highly flexible production processes adapting to new products, production technologies and resources including even “lot-size one” manufacturing. Software is the key to ensuring the flexibility already envisioned in future scenarios for mobility, energy supply or Industry 4.0. Such scenarios will lead to CPS with a tremendous increase in the complexity of their design and operation.
View-based development is a paradigm that addresses the problem that large cyber-physical systems are usually developed by several roles that all have languages, standards and tools of their own, in which they create representations of the system under development. However, consistency between these representations is often checked only manually, although inconsistencies can lead to costly adaptations if they are discovered in late phases of the development process. Therefore, research is of high interest, where mechanisms, approaches and tools for consistency management are researched.
In this special session, we encourage submissions in the field of consistency management for multi-view approaches in cyber-physical systems. The proposed session addresses the following topics:
Ralf Reussner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich, Germany
Uwe Aßmann, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Hugo Brunelière, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France
Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Salvador Martínez Pérez, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux
énergies alternatives (CEA), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Noël Plouzeau, Université de Rennes 1, France
Antonio Valecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Manuel Wimmer, Technical Univeristy of Vienna, Austria
Andreas Winter, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Steffen Zschaler, King’s College, London, United Kingdom