The Hardware–Software Tango [Point of View]

This paper highlights the dynamic software-hardware systems on recent development in aerospace, automotive, health care, communication, education, entertainment, finance, and many others. With the unceasing progress on the on how software sustains hardware-based function and vice versa, this proceedings will have a special issue on the topic of aerospace and automotive software later this year, and some invited papers will discuss: the progress of the past decades and present an expert's view into the future of aerospace and automotive software engineering, architecture, components, systems, and systems-of-systems; safety-driven software; software cost; software architectures; time-critical software; hardware-software codesign; software systems engineering; model-driven software engineering; model-integration methodologies; collaborative-model integration; toolset integration; aerospace software requirements; automobile software requirements; software security; software privacy; software usability; mobile systems software; software systems for intermittent communications and software systems for telemetry; defense systems; flight controls; and entertainment systems.