Mission

The main objective of the Action is to enhance the quality, visibility and impact of European research and industrial adoption in the trans-disciplinary area of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) by unification through Multi-Paradigm Modelling.

It is timely to introduce the Action since many related national research activities are under way. Information about state-of-the-art embedded systems, mechatronics for avionics, mechatronics for automotive, etc., is already exchanged among European countries, mostly via independent application-specific industrial standards. There is a clear need to bring different solutions from different technology and application domains together around CPS. The MPM perspective which advocates modelling every part and aspect of a problem explicitly, using the most appropriate formalisms and abstractions, with explicitly modelled processes, is seen as the main enabler. We wish to guide the further development and dissemination of MPM and CPS at the European level. This task can, however, be extremely difficult to complete without a strong large-scale collaboration, mostly due to a non-obvious convergence of proper problem and solution models (and their techniques) and due to the multiplication of efforts in the distributed groups. The Action is needed now, because ongoing research will benefit immediately in the context of the conceptual and application-oriented improvements achieved by the Action. The dissemination of the scientific results and the best practice recommendations produced by the Action, through publications and special sessions at conferences and workshops, will have an immediate impact on applied CPS modelling and CPS industrial development.

The present COST action aims at creating the conditions necessary for promoting the sharing of resources, by integrating, under a common umbrella (i.e., in a consistent and systematic way with a common terminology), the knowledge and experiments across several research projects around Europe (and beyond). In addition, this COST action provides a unique opportunity to establish international cooperation, and to exchange materials (data, models, insights) and compare results. Finally, this Action is expected to have an important impact on European policy with respect to regulations of the methodologies and procedures to develop and certify this kind of systems, combining national and international legislation. Also, better dissemination and collaboration will contribute to harmonising these procedures among EU member states. In this way, transfer to the international level would be highly beneficial for the internationalisation of CPS within the EU Industry. Here is a unique opportunity to determine appropriate ways of dealing with CPS in different industrial environments.
 

COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 		 
 

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The MPM4CPS Training School (18 - 21 November 2018) and Closing Conference (22 - 23 November 2018) took place in Pisa, Italy.