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Web applications require access to the file-system for many different tasks. When analyzing the security of a web application, secu- rity analysts should thus consider the impact that file-system operations have on the security of the whole…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Federico De Meo , Luca Viganò

The security of cyber-physical systems is first and foremost a safety problem, yet it is typically handled as a traditional security problem, which means that solutions are based on defending against threats and are often implemented too…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Bryan Carter , Georgios Bakirtzis , Carl Elks , Cody Fleming

We propose a novel framework for modelling attack scenarios in cyber-physical control systems: we represent a cyber-physical system as a constrained switching system, where a single model embeds the dynamics of the physical process, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Eleftherios Vlahakis , Gregory Provan , Gordon Werner , Shanchieh Yang , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos

Cyber physical systems CPSs embodies the conception as well as the implementation of the integration of the state-of-art technologies in sensing, communication, computing, and control. Such systems incorporate new trends such as cloud…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Walid Gomaa

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are important whenever computer technology interfaces with the physical world as it does in self-driving cars or aircraft control support systems. Due to their many subtleties, controllers for cyber-physical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-15 André Platzer

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are being increasingly utilized for critical applications. CPS combines sensing and computing elements, often having multi-layer designs with networking, computational, and physical interfaces, which provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julia Boone , Fatemeh Afghah

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) enable new kinds of applications as well as significant improvements of existing ones in numerous different application domains. A major trait of upcoming CPS is an increasing degree of automation up to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Daniel Schneider , Jan Reich , Rasmus Adler , Peter Liggesmeyer

This chapter provides an overview of the evolving landscape of attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) and critical infrastructures, highlighting the possible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to develop intelligent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Alan Oliveira de Sá , Charles Bezerra Prado , Mariana Luiza Flavio , Luiz F. Rust da C. Carmo

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) play an increasingly significant role in many critical applications. These valuable applications attract various sophisticated attacks. This paper considers a stealthy estimation attack, which aims to modify…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Zhiheng Xu , Arvind Easwaran

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) pose new challenges to verification and validation that go beyond the proof of functional correctness based on high-level models. Particular challenges are, in particular for formal methods, its heterogeneity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Carna Radojicic , Christoph Grimm , Axel Jantsch , Michael Rathmair

The threats faced by cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in critical infrastructure have motivated the development of different attack detection mechanisms, such as those that monitor for violations of invariants, i.e. properties that always hold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cheah Huei Yoong , Venkata Reddy Palleti , Arlindo Silva , Christopher M. Poskitt

We present a formal theory for analysing causality in cyber-physical systems. To this end, we extend the theory of actual causality by Halpern and Pearl to cope with the continuous nature of cyber-physical systems. Based on our theory, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hugo Araujo , Hana Chockler , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Gustavo Carvalho , Augusto Sampaio

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have experienced rapid growth in recent decades. However, like any other computer-based systems, malicious attacks evolve mutually, driving CPS to undesirable physical states and potentially causing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Pengyuan Lu , Lin Zhang , Mengyu Liu , Kaustubh Sridhar , Fanxin Kong , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) manage critical infrastructures by controlling the processes based on the "physics" data gathered by edge sensor networks. Recent innovations in ubiquitous computing and communication technologies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hakan Kayan , Matthew Nunes , Omer Rana , Pete Burnap , Charith Perera

Smart grid advancements and the increased integration of digital devices have transformed the existing power grid into a cyber-physical energy system. This reshaping of the current power system can make it vulnerable to cyberattacks, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Kalinath Katuri , Ioannis Zografopoulos , Ha Thi Nguyen , Charalambos Konstantinou

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in most instances, represent systems of systems with an informationally decentralized structure such as emerging mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Andreas Malikopoulos

The complexity of cyberattacks in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) calls for a mechanism that can evaluate the operational behaviour and security without negatively affecting the operation of live systems. In this regard, Digital Twins (DTs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sabah Suhail , Raja Jurdak

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to operate safely under fault and malicious attacks. The simplex architecture and the recently proposed cyber resilient architectures, e.g., Byzantine fault tolerant++ (BFT++), provide safety for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

Accountability is the property of a system that enables the uncovering of causes for events and helps understand who or what is responsible for these events. Definitions and interpretations of accountability differ; however, they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Severin Kacianka , Alexander Pretschner

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, aircraft, and robots are often also safety-critical; thus it is imperative that they operate as intended with a high degree of certainty. Formal verification has been employed to verify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Serra Z. Dane , Jiawei Chen , Marc Pouzet , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin