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Cyber-Physical Systems: Opportunities, Challenges and (Some) Solutions

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Management of Cyber Physical Objects in the Future Internet of Things

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The notion of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has recently been introduced. The term describes the integration of information and computation technologies (ICT) with real, physical objects. In this chapter, we motivate work in this new area by presenting the large set of opportunities resulting from this integration. However, this requires coping with a number of challenges which we do also include in this chapter. The final main section of this chapter comprises solutions which demonstrate that it is feasible to address the challenges and find solutions, even though a major amount of additional work is required.

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Some of the work described in this chapter has been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the context of our Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 and the Priority Program SPP 1500 on Dependable Embedded Systems. We do also acknowledge the support of the European Community through the ArtistDesign network of excellence and the PREDATOR project under grant agreement no. 216008.

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Marwedel, P., Engel, M. (2016). Cyber-Physical Systems: Opportunities, Challenges and (Some) Solutions. In: Guerrieri, A., Loscri, V., Rovella, A., Fortino, G. (eds) Management of Cyber Physical Objects in the Future Internet of Things. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26869-9_1

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