Welcome to the Homepage of the SECPPS Workshop Series
Software plays an increasingly important role in assuring effective and efficient operation of industrial automation engineering systems. However, software engineering methods applied in this field lag behind the conventional software engineering methods, where tremendous progress has been made in the last years.
The workshop series on Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS) aims at discussing new approaches and methods for the design of software for use in the production systems domain, which shall incorporate the latest trends from the software engineering domain. The workshop series addresses the challenges in adopting state-of-the-art software engineering tools and techniques in the automation domain and discuss various approaches to tackle the issues. Particularly, we are currently facing a dramatically increasing complexity in the development and operation of systems with the emergence of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). This demands for more comprehensive and systematic views on all aspects of systems (e.g., mechanics, electronics, software, and network) not only in the engineering process, but in the operation process as well. Moreover, flexible approaches are needed to adapt the systems’ behavior to ever-changing requirements and tasks, unexpected conditions, as well as structural transformations.
Collaborative Space/Results
In the course of the series, we set up a Google Drive Folder in which we collected the results of the workshops (notes, drawings, presentations). We also set up a Github repository to collect reading material (SECPPS Body of Knowledge). Access to both is restricted. Please join our initiative to get access, e.g., be registering for and participating in one of the next editions of our workshop series (see below) or by contacting the organizers.
Upcoming Workshop Editions:
February 2025: 9th SECPPS Workshop co-located with SE 2025 at KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
Preceding Workshop Editions:
- 8th SECPPS Workshop (Conference Edition) co-located as Special Session with ETFA 2024 in Padova, IT
- 7th SECPPS Workshop (Community Edition) at OFFIS, Oldenburg, DE
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6th SECPPS Workshop co-located with SE 2024 at JKU Linz, AT
- 5th SECPPS Workshop co-located as Special Session with ETFA 2023 in Sinaia, Romania
- 4th SECPPS Workshop at University of Hildesheim, Germany
- 3rd SECPPS Workshop located at the International Academy Traunkirchen, Austria
- Informal intermediary meetings
- 2nd SECPPS Workshop co-located with SE 2022 (virtual, AoE)
- 1st SECPPS Workshop co-located with SE 2021 (virtual, AoE)
Original Organizers
Rick Rabiser is Full Professor for Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and is leading the Christian Doppler Laboratory VaSiCS.
Birgit Vogel-Heuser is Full Professor at the Institute of Automation and Information Systems at Technical University Munich, Germany.
Manuel Wimmer is Full Professor at the Department of Business Informatics - Software Engineering at JKU Linz, Austria and is leading the Christian Doppler Laboratory CDL-MINT.
Andreas Wortmann is Junior Tenure-Track Professor for Model-based Development in Production Automation at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Alois Zoitl is Full Professor for Cyber-Physical Systems for Engineering and Production at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and is leading the Christian Doppler Laboratory VaSiCS.