Editor-in-Chief: Professor Jim Woodcock, Southwest University | China

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate embedded computers and networks with physical processes. They depend on feedback loops between computation and physical processes, data analytics, and AI. Their engineering needs unprecedented cooperation between different engineering disciplines. Development and deployment require new integrated scientific theories and engineering techniques. They will deliver advances in green buildings, autonomous vehicles, traffic flow management, emergency response, smart grids, industrial control, personalised healthcare, robotics, and other areas only now being envisaged.

Research Directions: CPS will unite researchers from different fields. We will explore fundamental questions about the theory and practice crossing all traditional engineering disciplines. Research Directions will follow the research lifecycle and share ideas as these questions develop. We will use a rigorous peer-review process and provide an alternative, ideally faster, way to disseminate timely and innovative results that the community agree are essential for progress. The scope of the research questions, challenges, and hypotheses are: applications; design methods; design technology; high integrity CPS; implementation; systems; technology; theory; verification & validation.