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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often safety-critical and deployed in uncertain environments. Identifying scenarios where CPSs do not comply with requirements is fundamental but difficult due to the multidisciplinary nature of CPSs. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Claudio Mandrioli , Seung Yeob Shin , Martina Maggio , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

In this work, we address the problem of formal safety verification for stochastic cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped with ReLU neural network (NN) controllers. Our goal is to find the set of initial states from where, with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Shiqi Sun , Yan Zhang , Xusheng Luo , Panagiotis Vlantis , Miroslav Pajic , Michael M. Zavlanos

In an increasingly interconnected world, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are essential to critical industries like healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing, merging physical processes with computational intelligence. However, the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Danial Abshari , Meera Sridhar

An appropriate system model gives developers a better overview, and the ability to fix more inconsistencies more effectively and earlier in system development, reducing overall effort and cost. However, modelling assumes abstraction of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Maria Spichkova , Heinrich Schmidt , Ian Peake

Large language models possess impressive capabilities in generating programs (e.g., Python) from natural language descriptions to execute robotic tasks. However, these generated programs often contain errors that violate externally given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , William Ward , Zichao Hu , Joydeep Biswas , Ufuk Topcu

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate cyber and physical components and enable them to interact with each other to meet user needs. The needs for CPSs span rich application domains such as healthcare and medicine, smart home, smart…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Dongming Jin , Shengxin Zhao , Zhi Jin , Xiaohong Chen , Chunhui Wang , Zheng Fang , Hongbin Xiao

This survey presents an overview of verification techniques for autonomous systems, with a focus on safety-critical autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) and subcomponents thereof. Autonomy in CPS is enabling by recent advances in…

Computational science relies on scientific software as its primary instrument for scientific discovery. Therefore, similar to the use of other types of scientific instruments, correct software and the correct operation of the software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Akash Dhruv , Rajeev Jain , Jared O'Neal , Klaus Weide , Anshu Dubey

Critical and cyber-physical systems (CPS) that exist in large industries, such as nuclear power plants, railway, automotive or aeronautical industries are complex heterogeneous systems. They are complex because they are open,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Abdelkader Khouass , Christian Attiogbé , Mohamed Messabihi

The ability to capture different levels of abstraction in a system model is especially important for remote integration, testing/verification, and manufacturing of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). However, the complexity of modelling and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Maria Spichkova , Anna Zamansky , Eitan Farchi

Formal specification is widely employed in the construction of high-quality software. However, there is often a huge gap between formal specification and actual implementation. While there is already a vast body of work on software testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Zhiqiang Ren , Hongwei Xi

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

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are the conjoining of an entities' physical and computational elements. The development of a typical CPS system follows a sequence from conceptual modeling, testing in simulated (virtual) worlds, testing in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Vijay Gadepally , Ashok Krishnamurthy , Umit Ozguner

A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) comprises physical as well as software subsystems. Simulation-based approaches are typically used to support design and Verification and Validation (V&V) of CPSs in several domains such as: aerospace, defence,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Stefano Sinisi , Vadim Alimguzhin , Toni Mancini , Enrico Tronci

Software system certification presents itself with many challenges, including the necessity to certify the system at the level of functional requirements, code and binary levels, the need to chase down run-time errors, and the need for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Eric Feron , Mardavij Roozbehani

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate sensing, computing, communication and actuation capabilities to monitor and control operations in the physical environment. A key requirement of such systems is the need to provide predictable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Hyoseung Kim

Debugging Cyber-Physical System (CPS) models can be extremely complex. Indeed, only the detection of a failure is insuffcient to know how to correct a faulty model. Faults can propagate in time and in space producing observable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ezio Bartocci , Niveditha Manjunath , Leonardo Mariani , Cristinel Mateis , Dejan Ničković

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

Optimizing CPS behavior in terms of energy consumption can have a significant impact on system reliability. The environment influences the system's behavior, and neglecting the environmental behavior has an indirect negative impact on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Reza Soltani , Eun-Young Kang , Juan Esteban Heredia Mena

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are long-living and mechatronic systems, which include mechanics, electrics/electronics and software. The interdisciplinary nature combined with challenges and trends in the context of Industry 4.0…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Birgit Vogel-Heuser , Juliane Fischer , Dieter Hess , Eva-Maria Neumann , Marcus Wuerr