Software abstractions and architectures for smart cyber-physical systems: Keynote address

The significant increase in the ubiquity and connectivity of computing devices has opened new possibilities for addressing social and environmental challenges, e.g., ambient assisted living, smart city infrastructures, emergency coordination, environmental monitoring. Engineering such systems commonly called smart Cyber-Physical Systems (sCPS) is typically very challenging because of their inherent dynamicity, open-endedness, autonomicity, and close relation to the real world. The trend observed in modern sCPS is that they are becoming increasingly complex and heavily rely on software to increase their efficiency and resilience. It is natural to expect that in the future of sCPS, the software will be by far the most complex constituent of such systems. This talk aims to present the challenges of engineering software for sCPS and to explain and demonstrate a novel approach based on autonomic component ensembles that provides means (methods and tools) for seamless design and development of sCPS.