Continuous Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

在过去的十年中，我们目睹了一种新的系统的出现，被称为网络物理系统（CPS）。从事物的计算方面来看，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，表现出对上下文和时间敏感的行为谱，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，如，新的编程模型范例，新型的实时操作系统，节能的硬件平台和控制理论框架，仅举几例。然而，从软件工程的角度来看，有有限的工作到目前为止，支持持续管理，进化和部署的CPS。由于对现有组件的频繁调整、第三方应用程序和设备的动态引入、较短的发布周期以及以我们从未见过的规模和不可预测性管理风险和技术债务的需要，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，发展和部署高度互连的软件组件的基本问题。

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.