Getting Software Engineering out of Isolation

Abstract

Abstract-We argue that the main challenges to be overcome in developing future generations of IT-enabled products and services lie not so much in the software engineering discipline itself as in the collaborative relationships that software engineers have with other disciplines. We briefly review the need for more emphasis on multi-disciplinary approaches and consider three classes of demanding system: embedded products, systems-of-systems and cyber-physical systems. In each of these areas, we argue that there is a need for engineering with formal semantic bases that enable joint modelling, analysis and simulation of groups of heterogeneous models.