Continuous Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

信息物理系统的持续软件工程

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-05333
• 负责人: Kontogiannis, Konstantinos
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=634598
• 关键词: Continuous; Software; Engineering; Cyber; Physical

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.

在过去的十年中，我们见证了一种新型系统的出现，称为网络物理系统（CPS）。从计算方面来看，网络物理系统是软件生态系统，其特征是高度相互依赖的组件，涉及复杂的控制协调逻辑，表现出上下文和时间敏感的行为范围，并与外部物理设备和物理环境进行大量交互。对于这些系统，研究界已经确定了许多研究方向，其中包括不同的领域，例如新颖的编程模型范式、新型实时操作系统、节能硬件平台和控制理论框架等。然而，从软件工程的角度来看，迄今为止支持CPS的持续管理、演进和部署的工作还很有限。由于现有组件的频繁调整、第三方应用程序和设备的动态引入、发布周期短以及需要以我们以前从未见过的规模和不可预测性管理风险和技术债务，CPS 引入了一系列全新的软件工程挑战。在这个研究项目中，我将研究在网络物理软件生态系统中建模、演化和部署大量高度互连的软件组件的基本问题。