Background: The increasing population of humans, changing food consumption behavior,
as well as the recent developments in the awareness for food sustainability, lead to new …

The research initiative “self-improving system integration”(SISSY) was established with the
goal to master the ever-changing demands of system organisation in the presence of …

In software engineering, knowledge about recurrent problems, along with blueprints of
associated solutions for diverse design contexts, are often captured in so-called design …

Collectiveness is an important property of many systems—both natural and artificial. By
exploiting a large number of individuals, it is often possible to produce effects that go far …

In this article, we make the case for the new class of Self-aware Cyber-physical Systems. By
bringing together the two established fields of cyber-physical systems and self-aware …

Self-improving system integration (SISSY) aims at mastering the challenges of system
organisation decisions for subsystems with highly dynamic behaviours. This is achieved by …

Digital twins are digital representations of cyber-physical systems, allowing bi-directional
data and control flow between them. In this paper, we introduce the digital twin concept in …

The self-improving system integration (SISSY) initiative-sometimes also called self-
integration-started over six years ago. Recently, we have seen contributions approaching …

The architecture of coordination mechanisms is central to the performance and behaviour of
(self-) integrated systems across natural, socio-technical and cyber–physical domains. Multi …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) comes along with new challenges for experimenting,
testing, and operating decentralized socio-technical systems at large-scale. In such systems …