RISI Workshop Message from the Workshop Organizers

Social infrastructures increasingly depend on real‐time monitoring and control of physical environments by information technology (IT). The embedded systems used for these purposes must deliver correct services for at least the critical functions. However, interferences due to crime, terrorism, or natural disasters threaten IT support and public safety therewith. Since not all threats can be foreseen or mitigated, affected systems have to adapt to both the changed situation and service failures. Adaptive systems following the computing paradigm of Ubiquitous Computing promise to guarantee the liveness properties in the case of faults and changes, and thus they may be improvements that move embedded systems towards cyber‐physical systems.