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Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as cars, aircraft, or smart homes tightly combine software with physical processes. CPS consist of many interacting electronic, mechanical, and computational components, making their design increasingly complex and difficult. These systems must be dependable, configurable, and flexible, while still working as a coherent whole. As a result, experts such as software developers struggle to manage the high degree of complexity, even at an architectural level. To cope with these challenges, therefore, CPS engineering relies on so-called views: focused sub-models tailored to specific tasks or expert perspectives.
Because these views are closely interrelated, maintaining consistency between them has become a key challenge in advanced systems engineering. Addressing this need, the Collaborative Research Center "Consistency in the View-Based Development of Cyber-Physical Systems" brings together experts from computer science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Technical University Munich, Technical University Dresden, and the University of Mannheim collaborate to develop new methods that reduce development time and update cycles while improving the adaptability, reliability, and security of future CPS.
As part of the prestigious „Expert Voice” series, a high-ranking Convide author team has published the article “Consistency Management in Model-Driven Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems: Towards Agile Design Methods” in SoSym. The article presents a roadmap for the introduction of consistency-maintaining agile methods in CPS development.
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On June 10, our PI Maike Schwammberger was invited as keynote speaker to the Research Training Group CAUSE’s working meeting in Oldenburg. In her talk “Self-Explainable Autonomous Systems”, Maike gave an expert audience insight into the research conducted by her and her team in Convide project A06.
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From 27-28 April 2026, the Convide Working Group Meeting 2026 took place at the Vorhoelzer Forum in Munich. In the established BarCamp format and over two productive days, forty researchers from Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Dresden, and Munich came together to exchange ideas, discuss current challenges, and come up with new collaboration opportunities.
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Together with his co-author team, our post-doctoral researcher Dr. Kevin Feichtinger was awarded the prestigious Journal of Systems and Software Best Paper Award 2025 for the paper "UVL: Feature Modelling with the Universal Variability Language". We congratulate Kevin and the whole author team to this incredible success!
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As part of Convide‘s on-going work on consistency in software modeling, a team of Karlsruhe-based researchers recently met with colleagues in Dresden to discuss the role of constraint languages in heterogeneous modeling systems. The meeting focused on the question of how constraints can serve as a unifying mechanism across modeling languages and viewpoints.
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As part of STAF’26, Convide researchers are once again organizing a workshop on (In-)Consistency Management (ICMM). The workshop addresses consistency challenges in modern modeling for complex, cyber-physical systems, and system-of-systems contexts. Its main goal is to bring researchers and practitioners together with the aim of fostering cross-community exchange.
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