Fundamental Limits of Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling

ABSTRACT

To model and design CPS systems, we must combine models for software, networks, and physical dynamics. Such combined models are fraught with subtlety because of the mixture of continuous dynamics and discrete behaviors. In this talk, I discuss some fundamental limits, which cannot be overcome by any modeling technique. Specifically, chaos, the inability to computationally model a continuum, and the incompleteness of determinism limit the predictive power of models.