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We continue to consider the question of what language features are needed to effectively model cyber-physical systems (CPS). In previous work, we proposed using a core language as a way to study this question, and showed how several basic…

Identifying the cause of a system-level failure in a cyber-physical system (CPS) can be like tracing a needle in a haystack. This paper approaches the problem by assuming that the CPS has been designed compositionally and that each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Josefine B. Graebener , Inigo Incer , Richard M. Murray

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malicious attacks so that specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

Several sources of uncertainty have to be taken into account in the analysis and design of CPS. The set of parameters used in the model of the physical plant of a CPS may be uncertain due, for example, to manufacturing processes that are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Alessandro Pinto

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), which integrate algorithmic control with physical processes, often consist of physically distributed components communicating over a network. A malfunctioning or compromised component in such a CPS can lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun

Traditional control environments connected to physical systems are being upgraded with novel information and communication technologies. The resulting systems need to be adequately protected. Experimental testbeds are crucial for the study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Jose Rubio-Hernan , Juan Rodolfo-Mejias , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

Securing cyber-physical systems (CPS) against malicious attacks is of paramount importance because these attacks may cause irreparable damages to physical systems. Recent studies have revealed that control programs running on CPS devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Long Cheng , Ke Tian , Danfeng Yao , Lui Sha , Raheem A. Beyah

Cyber-physical Systems of Systems (CPSoS) are becoming increasingly prevalent across sectors such as Industry 4.0 and smart homes, where they play a critical role in enabling intelligent, interconnected functionality. Addressing the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Elisabeth Vogel , Peter Langendörfer

Safety risk assessment is an essential process to ensure a dependable Cyber-Physical System (CPS) design. Traditional risk assessment considers only physical failures. For modern CPS, failures caused by cyber attacks are on the rise. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ashraf Tantawy , Sherif Abdelwahed , Abdelkarim Erradi

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

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Sabah Suhail , Saif Ur Rehman Malik , Raja Jurdak , Rasheed Hussain , Raimundas Matulevičius , Davor Svetinovic

Today's cyber physical systems (CPS) are not well protected against cyber attacks. Protected CPS often have holes in their defense, due to the manual nature of today's cyber security design process. It is necessary to automate or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Robert Laddaga , Paul Robertson , Howard Shrobe , Dan Cerys , Prakash Manghwani , Patrik Meijer

There has been an unprecedented digitization drive in the industrial sector, especially in the maritime industry. The profusion of intelligent electronic devices and IOT-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS) has helped in the efficient use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Mohammad Ammar , Irfan Ahmad Khan

Complex, interconnected cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly prevalent in domains such as power systems. Cyber-resilient architectures have been proposed to recover compromised cyber components of CPS. Recent works have studied…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Eman Badr , Abdullah Al Maruf

Cybersecurity risks are often managed by reducing the system's attack surface, which includes minimizing the number of interconnections, privileges, and impacts of an attack. While attack surface reduction techniques have been frequently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ali Tamimi , Ozgur Oksuz , Jinyoung Lee , Adam Hahn

In the analysis of coordinated network attacks on electric power cyber-physical system (CPS), it is difficult to restore the complete attack path, and the intent of the attack cannot be identified automatically. A method is therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Lei Wang , Zhaoyang Qu , Yang Li , Kewei Hu , Jian Sun , Kai Xue , Mingshi Cui

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) involve the interconnection of heterogeneous computing devices which are closely integrated with the physical processes under control. Often, these systems are resource-constrained and require specific features…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Ismael Etxeberria-Agiriano , Isidro Calvo , Liliana Montero , Ivan Alonso

We propose a methodology for verifying security properties of network protocols at design level. It can be separated in two main parts: context and requirements analysis and informal verification; and formal representation and procedural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Jesus Diaz , David Arroyo , Francisco B. Rodriguez

Cyber-physical systems have encountered a huge success in the past decade in several scientific communities, and specifically in production topics. The main attraction of the concept relies in the fact that it encompasses many scientific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Olivier Cardin

Cyber-physical space systems are engineered systems operating within physical space with design requirements that depend on space, e.g., regarding location or movement behavior. They are built from and depend upon the seamless integration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Nianyu Li , Christos Tsigkanos , Zhi Jin , Zhenjiang Hu , Carlo Ghezzi

This paper presents the cyber-physcial model of a computer-mediated control system that is a seamless, fully synergistic integration of the physical system and the cyber system, which provides a systematic framework for synthesis of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Lirong Huang