Simplicity is Complex Foundations of Cyber-Physical System Design
This book investigates the characteristics of simple versus complex systems, and what the properties of a cyber-physical system design are that contribute to an effective implementation and make the system understandable, simple to use
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Simplicity is Complex
Foundations of Cyber-Physical System Design
Simplicity is Complex
Hermann Kopetz
Simplicity is Complex Foundations of Cyber-Physical System Design
Hermann Kopetz Vienna University of Technology Baden-Siegenfeld, Austria
ISBN 978-3-030-20410-5 ISBN 978-3-030-20411-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20411-2 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
It is the objective of this book to investigate what are the characteristics of simple versus complex systems and to find out what are the design principles that make a Cyber-Physical System understandable, simple to use, and easy to maintain. The adherence to these principles in the design of a Cyber-Physical System should lead to a significant reduction of the system complexity. The targeted audiences of this book are engineers, managers, and advanced students who are involved in the design and evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems and are willing to spend some time outside the silo of their daily work in order to widen their background and learn more about the pervasive problems of system complexity. My interest in the topic of complexity started when I was a manager of a process control department industry more than 40 years ago. This topic kept me hostage up to today. Forty years ago, the design of a process control system (today these systems are called Cyber-Physical Systems) was more of an art than an engineering endeavor. The software technology at that time was concerned primarily with functional correctness and did not pay much attention to the temporal dimension of program execution that is as important as functional correctness when a physical p
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