Robotic research is making huge progress. However, existing solutions are facing a number
of challenges preventing them from being used in our everyday tasks:(i) robots operate in …

The advent of complex Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) creates the need for more efficient
engineering processes. Recently, DevOps promoted the idea of considering a closer …

Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness.
Labor shortage partly due to depopulation of rural areas, especially in Europe, is another …

With the emergence of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the increasing complexity in
development and operation demands for an efficient engineering process. In the recent …

Optimizing software testing process has received much attention over the last few decades.
Test optimization is typically seen as a multi-criteria decision making problem. One aspect of …

The challenges related to dependable complex systems are heterogeneous and involve
different aspects of the system. On one hand, the decision-making processes need to take …

Software-intensive systems in the automotive domain are often built in different variants,
notably in order to support different market segments and legislation regions. Model-based …

Manufacturers of automated systems and their components have been allocating an
enormous amount of time and effort in R&D activities, which led to the availability of …

Model-Driven Engineering techniques may achieve a major support to the software
development when they allow to manage relationships between a running system and its …

There is an ever-increasing complexity of the systems we engineer in modern society, which
includes facing the convergence of the embedded world and the open world. This …