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Cyber-Physical Systems: A Rehash or A New Intellectual Challenge?
Edward A. Lee

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Edward A. Lee. "Cyber-Physical Systems: A Rehash or A New Intellectual Challenge?". Talk or presentation, 10, December, 2013; Video of presentation given by author at a seminar at Supélec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.

Abstract
The term cyber-physical systems (CPS) refers to the integration of computation and networking with physical processes. CPS is firmly established as a buzzword du jour. Yet many of its elements are familiar and not altogether new. Is CPS just a rehash of old problems designed to attract new funding? In this talk, I will argue that quite to the contrary, CPS is pushing hard at the frontiers of engineering knowledge, putting severe stress on the abstractions and techniques that have proven so effective in the separate spaces of cyber systems (information and computing technology) and physical systems (the rest of engineering). My argument will center on the role of models, and I will show that questions about semantics of models become extremely challenging when the models are required to conjoin the cyber and the physical worlds.

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    href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1044.html"
    ><i>Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A New
    Intellectual Challenge?</i></a>, Talk or
    presentation,  10, December, 2013; Video of presentation
    given by author at a seminar at Sup&eacute;lec in
    Gif-sur Yvette, France.
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    Edward A. Lee. "Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A
    New Intellectual Challenge?". Talk or presentation, 
    10, December, 2013; Video of presentation given by author at
    a seminar at Sup&eacute;lec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.
  • BibTeX
    @presentation{Lee13_CyberPhysicalSystemsARehashOrNewIntellectualChallenge,
        author = {Edward A. Lee},
        title = {Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A New
                  Intellectual Challenge?},
        day = {10},
        month = {December},
        year = {2013},
        note = {Video of presentation given by author at a seminar
                  at Sup\&eacute;lec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.},
        abstract = {The term cyber-physical systems (CPS) refers to
                  the integration of computation and networking with
                  physical processes. CPS is firmly established as a
                  buzzword du jour. Yet many of its elements are
                  familiar and not altogether new. Is CPS just a
                  rehash of old problems designed to attract new
                  funding? In this talk, I will argue that quite to
                  the contrary, CPS is pushing hard at the frontiers
                  of engineering knowledge, putting severe stress on
                  the abstractions and techniques that have proven
                  so effective in the separate spaces of cyber
                  systems (information and computing technology) and
                  physical systems (the rest of engineering). My
                  argument will center on the role of models, and I
                  will show that questions about semantics of models
                  become extremely challenging when the models are
                  required to conjoin the cyber and the physical
                  worlds. },
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1044.html}
    }
    

Posted by Mary Stewart on 17 Dec 2013.
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