Continuous Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

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Over the past decade we witnessed the emergence of a new breed of systems which are referred to as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). From the computational side of things, cyber-physical systems are software ecosystems that are characterised by highly interdependent components which involve complex control coordination logic, exhibit a context and time sensitive spectrum of behaviours, and interact heavily with external physical devices and the physical environment. For these systems, the research community has identified a number of research directions which include diverse fields such as, novel programming model paradigms, new types of real-time operating systems, energy efficient hardware platforms and control theory frameworks, to name a few. However, from the software engineering point of view, there is limited work to date for supporting the continuous management, evolution and deployment of CPS. CPS introduce a completely new set of software engineering challenges due to frequent adaptations of existing components, the dynamic introduction of third party applications and devices, short release cycles, and the need of managing risk and technical debt in a scale and unpredictability we have not seen before. In this research program, I will investigate fundamental problems of modelling, evolving, and deploying very large collections of highly interconnected software components in cyber-physical software ecosystems.