Taming Heterogeneity and Distribution in sCPS

Smart Cyber Physical Systems (sCPS) are composed by a highly heterogeneous interconnection of platforms and devices offering a wide diversity of capabilities ranging from cloud server with virtually unlimited resources down to microcontrollers with only a few KB of RAM. This paper motivates the fact that no single software framework or software engineering approach is suited to span across this range, and proposes an approach which leverages the latest advances in model-driven engineering and models runtime in order to manage the heterogeneous and distributed nature of sCPS.