Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) refer to systems comprising software components, physical components, and social entities that monitor, control, and coordinate processes within a physical environment. CPSs apply to a wide range of mission-critical applications that span from the intelligent management of logistics in complex supply chains, advanced manufacturing systems, and smart contracts, all the way to autonomous systems and systems that support the smart interactions between humans and machines (M2H) or between machines (M2M). In this respect, the engineering of CPSs extends beyond existing Software Engineering concepts, tools, and techniques due to the very nature of CPSs, which spans three realms (cyber, physical, and social), and therefore requires addressing requirements that span these realms.
The workshop aims to bring together leading researchers, as well as experts from software and hardware companies and technology receptors to discuss and debate the latest developments in engineering Cyber-Physical Systems.
Call for Papers
The workshop areas lie at the intersection of Software Engineering (SE), Systems Management, AI, and Control Theory, building upon emerging international Research and Development efforts aimed at producing models, development tools, and runtime platforms for CPSs. The workshop theme focuses on the recent developments and open research challenges in six main thematic areas, namely specification and modeling, DevOps processes and models, data management and analytics, infrastructure and event handling, run-time adaptivity, and finally security, trust, and traceability. Use cases to be discussed include, but are not limited to, model-driven techniques, collaborative agents in M2M and M2H interactions, intelligent web tasking, smart contracts, preventive maintenance, as well as security and regulatory compliance.
The workshop will cover key infrastructure technologies related to distributed database systems, cloud computing, digital twins, frameworks for adaptive systems, component security and compliance, as well as the application of AI and smart contracts in engineering intelligent systems. These technologies cover a broad spectrum of the state-of-the-art in designing and deploying systems that exhibit intelligent behavior and interact with both the Physical and Cyber worlds. In this respect, we believe that the workshop will provide the springboard for interesting discussions and foster new research ideas for researchers who work on service computing, distributed systems, adaptive systems, data management systems, and the applications of AI for monitoring and securing large-scale systems.
Submission Details
Please prepare manuscripts (up to 4 pages) using CASCON formatting guidelines and submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cascon2025.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: October 15, 2025 (AoE)
Author notification: November 1, 2025
If you have any questions, please contact Miriam Capretz (mcapretz@uwo.ca), Daniel Amyot (damyot@uottawa.ca), or Kostas Kontogiannis (kkontog@yorku.ca).
