Special section on Cyber-Physical & Human Systems (CPHS)

As a consequence of the computer and internet revolution, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have facilitated huge breakthroughs in recent decades in the development of new technologies to improve citizens' lives, with impacts seen in many different sectors of society including healthcare, urban planning and mobility, and energy management. Increasingly there is a need for CPS to be closely aligned with humans for a variety of reasons, leading to the creation of a new field of Cyber Physical and Human Systems (CPHS). To truly understand, analyze, and design CPHS, multidisciplinary and collaborative research needs to be carried out with scientists in social sciences such as Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Learning as well as engineers and computer scientists with backgrounds in control, communication, hardware, software. The underlying problems are varied and complex and their solutions cannot be tackled by experts in one discipline alone.