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Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as cars, aircraft, or smart homes tightly combine software with physical processes. They 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, even software developers struggle to manage this high degree of complexity, particularly at the architectural level. To cope with this challenge, development 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 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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From 19-21 November 2025, Convide assembled for the annual Winter Colloquium. In the presence of our distinguished Advisory Board members, our projects presented and discussed the current state of our research and gathered feedback for the coming years. We thank everyone who made this year's Colloquium a success!
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As part of our Editing Office's continuing efforts to bring the best writing support to Convide, we are proud to be hosting a special event on 22 October 2025. Professor Helen Sword, an internationally recognized expert in the area of academic writing, will take the stage, presenting and discussing ways of improving publication productivity.
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On 26 June 2025, Junior Professor Maike Schwammberger was invited to give a talk at this year’s International Symposium on Verification of Autonomous Mobile Systems (VAMS) in Paris. In her talk, Maike gave insight into her Convide research, outlining a roadmap towards dynamic conflict management for autonomous traffic agents.
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On 25/26 June 2025, the yearly Convide Working Group meeting took place at KIT. Over 30 researchers traveled to Campus North to discuss cross-project ideas in a BarCamp setting. As an impressive sign for the project’s advances in recent months, the event illustrated that the Convide team is hard at work tackling highly relevant and timely research problems.
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