ICyPhy is a pre-competitive industry-academic partnership focused on architectures, abstractions, technologies, methodologies, and supporting tools for the design, modeling, and analysis of large-scale complex systems. The purpose of this partnership is to promote research that applies broadly across industries, providing the intellectual foundation for next generation systems engineering. The focus is on cyber-physical systems, which combine a cyber side (computing and networking) with a

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... al side (e.g., mechanical, electrical, and chemical processes). Such systems present the biggest challenges and biggest opportunities in several critical industrial segments such as electronics, energy, automotive, defense and aerospace, telecommunications, instrumentation, and industrial automation. The approach leverages considerable experience designing complex artifacts in the semiconductor, embedded systems, and software industries, and major recent advances in algorithmic techniques for dealing with complexity. This consortium adapts and extends these techniques to handle the fundamentally different challenges in largescale cyber-physical systems.