Core Research and Innovation Areas in Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems

The CPSoS project is developing a roadmap for future research activities in Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems. To support this process, the project has set up three Working Groups to capture the views of industry and academia: The working groups currently comprise of 35 members, leading specialists from industry and academia, and include delegates from ongoing EU-funded projects in the area of Systems of Systems to ensure that as many views as possible are represented. A list of the members of the Working Groups can be found in the appendix. This document presents preliminary findings and proposals that are put forward as a result of internal discussions in the consortium, in the three Working Groups (WGs) and at public meetings of the Working Groups. A number of meetings have been held starting with a joint meeting in January 2014 where the scope of cyber-physical systems of systems research and innovation was discussed and first proposals for research and innovation topics were collected and prioritized. A much wider consultation was then held via performance of a large number of interviews with representatives of industry in the domains of transportation and logistics, electrical grid management, the process industries and smart buildings. The domain of cyber-physical systems of systems and the key research and innovation challenges in CPSoS were presented by the Interestingly, the views of leading experts from industry, academia and funding institutions from Europe, Japan and the US largely coincided in stressing the need to address system-wide issues in present-day socio-technical systems. A second round of Working Group meetings with wider external participation of key actors from their domains was organized in September/October 2014. Here the initial findings were presented and further additional input on research and innovation priorities was gathered.