Guest Editor Introduction

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are the new generation of engineered embedded systems in which the sensing, computational, and physical processes are tightly coupled together to interact with the physical world and human operators. Many such CPS are deployed in safety-critical domains with hard real-time constraints, which makes it extremely important to guarantee their timeliness and reliability while maintaining good performance. Given the wide array of applications and their requirements, Real-Time Technologies in CPS is a multifaceted research area covering topics, such as data analytics, programming models, systems engineering, distributed computing and communication infrastructures, and systems software.