Description:
This book examines various developments of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that are impacting our daily lives and sets the stage for future directions in this domain. The book covers the physical infrastructure required for CPS, addresses energy issues in CPS with the use of supercapacitors and reliability assessment, describes the modeling of CPS as a network of robots, and explores design-related issues. It also discusses ubiquitous computing and cloud computing, security and privacy issues, and the role of CPS in big data analytics, social network analysis, and healthcare.