Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-02585, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Kontogiannis, Konstantinos (The University of Western Ontario), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Discovery Grants Program - Individual, program name french : Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles, program purpose english : Summary 
Over the past decade we witnessed the emergence of a new breed of systems which are referred to as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). From the computational side of things, cyber-physical systems are software ecosystems that are characterised by highly interdependent components which involve complex control coordination logic, exhibit a context and time sensitive spectrum of behaviours, and interact heavily with external physical devices and the physical environment. For these systems, the research community has identified a number of research directions which include diverse fields such as, novel programming model paradigms, new types of real-time operating systems, energy efficient hardware platforms and control theory frameworks, to name a few. However, from the software engineering point of view, there is limited work to date for supporting the continuous management, evolution and deployment of CPS. CPS introduce a completely new set of software engineering challenges due to frequent adaptations of existing components, the dynamic introduction of third party applications and devices, short release cycles, and the need of managing risk and technical debt in a scale and unpredictability we have not seen before. In this research program, I will investigate fundamental problems of modelling, evolving, and deploying very large collections of highly interconnected software components in cyber-physical software ecosystems., program purpose french : Summary 
Over the past decade we witnessed the emergence of a new breed of systems which are referred to as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). From the computational side of things, cyber-physical systems are software ecosystems that are characterised by highly interdependent components which involve complex control coordination logic, exhibit a context and time sensitive spectrum of behaviours, and interact heavily with external physical devices and the physical environment. For these systems, the research community has identified a number of research directions which include diverse fields such as, novel programming model paradigms, new types of real-time operating systems, energy efficient hardware platforms and control theory frameworks, to name a few. However, from the software engineering point of view, there is limited work to date for supporting the continuous management, evolution and deployment of CPS. CPS introduce a completely new set of software engineering challenges due to frequent adaptations of existing components, the dynamic introduction of third party applications and devices, short release cycles, and the need of managing risk and technical debt in a scale and unpredictability we have not seen before. In this research program, I will investigate fundamental problems of modelling, evolving, and deploying very large collections of highly interconnected software components in cyber-physical software ecosystems., agreement title english : Continuous Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems, agreement title french : Continuous Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems, agreement number : RGPIN, agreement value : 20000.0, agreement start date : 2017-05-10, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2018-2019), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada