Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging software technology for automating business processes. RPA uses software robots to perform repetitive and error‐prone tasks previously done by human actors quickly and accurately. These robots ...

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Cloud computing is characterized as a shared computing and communication infrastructure. It encourages the efficient and effective developmental processes that are carried out in various organizations. Cloud computing offers both possibilities ...

Cloud computing is characterized as a shared computing and communication infrastructure. Cloud computing is the ideal choice utilized for development modern software's as they have provided a completely new way of developing real time cost effective, ...

With the increasing adoption of cloud computing, the deployment and management of business processes over cloud environments have become an essential operation for most enterprises, leading to the emergence of BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) ...

We propose an approach for predictive BPaaS management. The proposed method combines neural networks with quantum genetic algorithm to define a model for the prediction of cloud zones' future states. Depending on the prediction results, a reconfiguration ...

Real‐time systems are complex and composed of time‐bounded events that must satisfy the real‐time constraints for their proper functioning. To cope with the complexity of real‐time systems, model‐driven approaches such as model‐driven architecture ...

This paper presents a metamodel‐based automated transformation technique for mapping the UML/MARTE sequence diagram into the generalized PNML representation of the timed Petri net model using the ATL Transformation Language. The proposed approach supports ...

INSPEX is an INtegrated Smart sPatial EXploration system. It relies on a family of sensors, like automated vehicles do, to provide enough information to a digital system for it to make reliable inferences about the location of obstacles and other ...

The INSPEX Project, to design and integrate a number of sensors to create a minaturised obstacle location device, was of sufficient complexity to merit the use of formal methods. These were deployed in data pathway verification, and in power management ...

The increased need for constant connectivity and complete automation of existing systems fuels the popularity of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) worldwide. Increasingly more, these systems are subjected to cyber attacks. In recent years, many major ...

Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) differ from traditional Information Technology (IT) systems in such a way that they interact with the physical environment, i.e., they can monitor and manipulate real objects and processes. For this special issue, the ...

A cyber‐physical system‐of‐systems (CPSoS) can be defined as a system‐of‐systems (SoS), composed of several operable and autonomous constituent systems (CSs) that are themselves cyber‐physical systems (CPSs). A main challenge in integrating CPSoS ...

To facilitate the integration of cyber‐physical systems within the overall context of their system‐of‐systems, it may be necessary to adjust their level of autonomy in a way that enables them to perform their activities and avoid undesirable, unsecure, ...

In today's engineering projects, companies continuously have to adapt their systems to changing customers or dynamic market requirements. This requires a flexible, iterative development process in which different parts of the system under ...

In the effort to develop critical cyber‐physical systems, it is tempting to extend existing computing formalisms to include continuous behaviour. This may happen in a way that neglects elements necessary for correctly expressing continuous ...

With digitalization and with technologies such as software, data, and artificial intelligence, companies in the embedded systems domain are experiencing a rapid transformation of their conventional businesses. While the physical products and ...

The four dimensions of successful digital transformation are the product upgrade dimension, the business model dimension, the data exploitation dimension, and the AI/ML/DL dimension. image image

The future will encompass heavily interconnected, distributed, heterogeneous and intelligent systems which are bound to have a significant economic and social impact. Cyber physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, smart electric grid, ...

In this paper, we present an overview of the DDI. We provide the metric selection process for evaluating the DDI's impact on CPS dependability. The results of an evaluation of the DDI's impact on dependability in four CPS industrial systems are provided, ...

Digitalization is transforming industry to an extent that we have only seen the beginnings of. Across domains, companies experience rapid changes to their existing practices due to new technologies and new entrants that current businesses. While ...

The generally held opinion by the research community is that digitalization disrupts companies. However, very few people study how disruption happens in practice and how incumbents can avoid disruption and maintain their competitiveness. Based on six case ...

Robot Operating System (ROS) is a middleware for connecting different components of robots. However, its use is becoming more popular in other domains such as in the automotive sector where initial prototypes have been customized and deployed in ...

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are safety‐critical, be it weapon systems, smart medical devices, or grid stations. This makes ensuring security of all the components constituting a CPS unavoidable. The rise in the demand of interconnectedness has ...

The process of engineering cyber‐physical systems (CPS) is inevitably challenging because of the intrinsic problem of merging the specification of different ensembles that indicate hardware, software, and physical aspects of such systems. This ...

• Engineering cyber‐physical systems (CPS) is challenging due to the intrinsic problem of merging hardware, software, and physical aspects.
• Modelling and analysing the performance characteristics of CPS requires the coexistence of multiple models to get ...

During the last decade, cloud computing became a natural choice to host and provide various computing resources as on‐demand services. To better satisfy user requirements, cloud services may be combined while considering the constraints of the ...

The proliferation of multicloud environments and the increasing complexity of cloud users' requirements have raised the need for effective cloud service reuse methods in the multicloud setting. Existing solutions lack facilities for multicloud service ...

Cloud computing has emerged as a new powerful service delivery model to cope with resource challenges and to offer various on‐demand services (eg, software, storage, network, etc.). Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the most popular service ...

Cyber‐physical systems (CPS) refer to the next generation of Information and Communication Technology systems that mainly integrate sensing, computing, and communication to monitor, control, and interact with a physical process to provide citizens ...

This paper aims to identify and compare existing research on software architectures for health care Cyber‐Physical Systems to determine successful solutions that could guide other architects and practitioners on their health care projects. We conducted a ...