Together with ASML, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and TNO-ESI, we are starting a new research project on design-space exploration for complex distributed cyber-physical systems. Thank you ASML and TNO-ESI for contributing to the project, and to Philips, Canon Production Printing, Thales, Vanderlande, Eindhoven University of Technology, and University of Twente for joining the user committee.
Design-space Exploration for Complex Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (DESIRE) builds on our earlier work in DSE 2.0, extending it toward an advanced holistic and automated approach to exploring alternative hardware platforms, software changes, and mappings — helping engineers answer critical what-if questions on performance and cost in increasingly complex systems. In particular, we will focus on:
1) Capturing realistic system behavior from traces while scaling to industrial systems with partial observability and complex environments
2) Bridging software and hardware characterization to enable model-based exploration of performance across heterogeneous platforms.
3) Handling extremely large, heterogeneous, multi-objective design spaces.
At the same time, it’s great to see how earlier results are already being picked up, matured, and experimented with in practice by TNO-ESI and ASML, closing the loop between academic research and industrial impact.
Looking forward to this next step in the collaboration!
The announcement of the grant from NWO is available here.
