Future safety-critical systems will be highly automated or even autonomous and they will
dynamically cooperate with other systems as part of a comprehensive ecosystem. This …

In the automotive industry, modern cyber-physical systems feature cooperation and
autonomy. Such systems share information to enable collaborative functions, allowing …

The growing adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for tasks such as eCommerce,
aerial surveillance, and environmental monitoring introduces the need for new safety …

The verification and validation (V&V) of autonomous systems is a complex and difficult task,
especially when artificial intelligence is used to achieve autonomy. However, without proper …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) harbor the enormous potential for societal
improvement in terms of safety, comfort and economic efficiency. However, these benefits …

Abstract The use of Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) offers many advantages across a
variety of applications. However, safety assurance is a key barrier to widespread usage …

Promoted by the internet companies, continuous delivery is more and more appealing to
industries which develop systems with safety-critical functions. Since safety-critical systems …

Connected cars, freely configurable operating rooms, or autonomous harvesting fleets:
dynamically emerging open systems of systems will shape a new generation of systems …

Cooperative systems of systems (CSoSs) form a new technological frontier for their
enormous economic and societal potentials in various domains. This article presents a novel …

The production sector is experiencing significant transformations driven by comprehensive
digitalization, interconnection, and further automation advances. One sub-sector that can …