Recent Advances in Security, Resilience, and Multi-Objective Optimization of Cyber-Physical Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber–physical systems; physical-layer security; UAV communications
Interests: cyber–physical systems; electrical power generation; control engineering
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Interests: cyber-physical systems; NCS; communication protocol
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are the digital backbone of smart grids, Industry 4.0, autonomous transportation, and connected healthcare. Their tight integration of computation, communication, and control makes them both performance-critical and cyber-vulnerable. This special issue seeks novel techniques and innovations in areas such as real-time control, system integration, security, and machine learning within CPS frameworks. Moreover, we will highlight the role of CPSs in solving complex real-world problems, particularly in areas like autonomous systems, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and smart healthcare.
Topics of Interest (include but are not limited to):
- Attack detection, isolation, and mitigation for sensor, actuator, and network layers of CPS
- Formal verification, runtime monitoring, and digital-twin-based security assessment
- Real-time resource allocation under safety, security, and energy constraints
- AI/ML-driven control and scheduling with provable guarantees
- Edge-cloud orchestration for latency-reliability trade-offs in large-scale CPS
- Game-theoretic, learning-based, and adaptive control approaches for secure and resilient CPS
- Federated and privacy-preserving learning in distributed CPS
- Generative AI for threat modeling and automated system hardening
- Quantum-safe CPS and 6G-enabled deterministic networking
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Bing Hu
Dr. Zhijian Hu
Dr. Jian Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyber-physical systems
- network security
- AI/ML-driven control
- smart grids
- cyber attacks
- degrees-of-freedom
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