The papers in this special section focus on industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS), with an emphasis on computing and communications applications. CPS systems are defined by integrating computation and communication facilities on the one hand and the monitoring and control of physical processes on the other hand. Industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPS) refer to the science and art of designing and using cyber–physical systems for industrial and process control applications, for example in smart factories, smart energy grids, smart transportation systems, smart cities, and several other areas. Many of these applications are time- and mission-critical and hence often require low latency and high reliability. In parallel, there has been a strong growth in integrating intelligence, often in the form of machine/deep learning, into applications, which also leads to vastly increasing computational requirements. These innovations then will be integrated into complex systems, which need to be properly engineered to become safe, reliable, trustworthy, and secure while at the same time being cost-efficient.

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客座社论：工业网络“物理系统”计算和通信的新趋势


本专题部分的论文重点关注工业网络物理系统 (CPS)，重点关注计算和通信应用。 CPS 系统的定义是一方面集成计算和通信设施，另一方面集成物理过程的监视和控制。工业信息物理系统（ICPS）是指设计和使用信息物理系统进行工业和过程控制应用的科学和艺术，例如智能工厂、智能能源网格、智能交通系统、智能城市和其他几个领域。其中许多应用程序都是时间和任务关键型的，因此通常需要低延迟和高可靠性。与此同时，将智能（通常以机器/深度学习的形式）集成到应用程序中的速度强劲，这也导致计算需求大幅增加。然后，这些创新将被集成到复杂的系统中，这些系统需要经过适当的设计，才能变得安全、可靠、值得信赖，同时又具有成本效益。