Towards Research on Software Cybernetics

of software analysis and design. Software theories, such as temporal logic, CSP and CCS, have not been fully applied in control systems analysis or synthesis either. The core of software engineering and that of control theory/engineering have been developed independently of each other. The feasibility of bringing these two cores together has rarely been explored. Our proposed concept of software cybernetics is to make better use of the interplay between the core of software engineering and that of control theory/engineering. It treats software problems as a control problem, and control problems as a software problem. It deals with software problems and control problems in an integrated manner. Software cybernetics is a newly proposed area in software engineering. It makes better use of the interplay between control theory/engineering and software engineering. In this papet; we look into the research potentials of this emerging area.