ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems

ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems is a journal of the Association for Computing Machinery on the interaction of computation, networking and physical processes, founded in 2017.《ACM 信息物理系统汇刊》是计算机协会旗下的一份期刊，主题为计算、网络与物理过程之间的相互作用，创办于 2017 年。

The title publishes original research and survey papers that carry the scientific and technological understanding of such systems.该刊发表原创研究与综述论文，承载对这类系统的科学与技术认识。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3 and stands in the third quartile of computer science, interdisciplinary applications.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在计算机科学跨学科应用类目中列第三区。

Scope

• The journal treats a cyber-physical system as one in which the computing and the communication parts are tightly joined to physical processes.该刊把信息物理系统视为计算与通信两部分同物理过程紧密结合的系统。

• The union is taken to hold both at design time and during operation, and the journal carries work on each.这种结合被认为在设计阶段与运行期间都成立，该刊对两者都有收载。

• Computation abstractions are named among the topics, and work on how such a system is described in software is admitted.计算抽象被点名为选题之一，关于这类系统如何在软件中被描述的工作受到收载。

• System modelling and languages appear in the list, and the journal takes work on the notations used to specify a system.系统建模与语言见于名单，该刊收载用以规定系统的各种记法方面的工作。

• Compositionality and integration form a strand, and studies of how parts are put together into a working whole are taken.组合性与集成构成一支，关于部件如何拼成一个可用整体的研究受到收载。

• Design automation and tool chains are covered, and the journal carries work on the software that helps an engineer build such a system.设计自动化与工具链得到覆盖，该刊刊载帮助工程师构建这类系统的软件方面的工作。

• Trustworthy system designs are named, and work on security, on privacy and on predictable behaviour is admitted.可信系统设计被点名，关于安全、隐私与可预测行为的工作受到收载。

• System designs that hold up under stress form a subject, and the journal takes work on systems that keep going when something goes wrong.在压力之下仍站得住的设计自成一个选题，该刊收载出错时仍能持续工作的系统方面的研究。

• The human in the loop is written into the scope, and studies of a person working with such a system are taken.人入回路被写入收稿范围，关于人与这类系统协同工作的研究受到收载。

• Healthcare is named among the application domains, and work on medical devices of this kind is admitted.医疗被点名为应用领域之一，关于此类医疗器械的工作受到收载。

• Transportation and automotive applications appear in the list, and the journal carries work on vehicles that sense and decide.交通与汽车应用见于名单，该刊刊载能够感知并作出决断的车辆方面的研究。

• Avionics and energy belong to the domains, and work on aircraft systems and on the power grid is taken.航空电子与能源属于这些领域，关于飞机系统与电网的工作受到收载。

• Living space and robotics close the list, which shows how far the journal reads beyond the laboratory.生活空间与机器人补足这份名单，可见该刊的视野远不止于实验室。

• Original research papers are the mainstay, and survey papers are admitted where they give the field a shape.原创研究论文是主体，综述论文在其为领域勾出轮廓时受到收载。

• The journal is read by computer scientists and by engineers of the physical systems, and it is written for readers on both sides.该刊的读者既有计算机科学家也有物理系统方面的工程师，行文面向两侧的读者。

• Papers on smart cities appear, since a city with sensing and control is one of the settings the field has in view.智慧城市的论文也有出现，因为具备感知与控制的城市是该领域所虑及的场景之一。

• Work on timing and on control is admitted, and the journal takes studies that must meet a deadline as well as a specification.时序与控制的工作也在接纳之列，该刊收载既要满足规格又须赶在时限之内完成的研究。

• Security of a system that acts on the physical world is treated, and the journal carries work on the consequences of a fault.作用于物理世界的系统之安全得到处理，该刊刊载故障后果方面的研究。

• The journal welcomes papers that report a deployment, so that a design can be judged by how it behaved outside a laboratory.该刊欢迎报告实际部署的论文，使某一设计可依其在实验室之外的表现来评判。

• Benchmarks and testbeds are covered, and the journal favours work that lets another group compare approaches.基准与试验平台得到覆盖，该刊偏好使另一团队得以比较各种方法的工作。

• The editors seek work that joins a formal account to a physical experiment, since the field lives at that junction.编辑方寻找把形式化论述与物理实验结合的工作，因为这一领域正活在那个交会处。

History

• The journal was founded in 2017, and the first volume was gathered under that year.该刊创办于 2017 年，第 1 卷以该年为卷年成册。

• It was set up by the Association for Computing Machinery, which issues it from New York.该刊由计算机协会创办，该协会在纽约发行它。

• The title belongs to the association's series of transactions, and it follows their conventions for review and for presentation.该刊属于该协会的汇刊系列，遵循它们在评审与呈现上的惯例。

• Four issues are gathered into a year, and the quarterly rhythm has held through the journal's first decade.该刊每年汇集四期，这一季刊的节奏在其头十年一直保持。

• The print number is 2378-962X and the electronic number is 2378-9638.印刷版编号为 2378-962X，电子版编号为 2378-9638。

• The title is listed in the emerging sources citation index, and it also appears in the computing and engineering databases.该刊被新兴资源引文索引收录，也见于计算与工程类数据库。

• The impact indicator has stood at 2, then 2.9, and reached 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子先为 2，后为 2.9，在 2025 年版达到 3.3。

• Around one paper in five is free to read on publication, and the journal follows the open access arrangements of its association.该刊约五分之一的论文在出版时即可免费阅读，刊物遵循其协会的开放获取安排。

• The journal belongs to a young field, and a paper in its fifth volume traced how the subject grew from an interdisciplinary idea into a discipline.该刊属于一个年轻的领域，其第 5 卷的一篇论文梳理了这一题目如何从一个跨学科构想成长为学科。

• The association revised its peer review policy for all of its journals, and the journal states the changes on its own pages.该协会为其全部期刊修订了同行评审政策，该刊在自身页面上说明这些变动。

• The review policy addresses confidentiality, the use of language models in review, and the handling of conflicts of interest.该评审政策涉及保密、评审中语言模型的使用，以及利益冲突的处理。

• The journal keeps a home on the association's digital library, and its articles are numbered rather than paged within an issue.该刊在协会的数字图书馆上有其主页，文章以编号而非在某一期内的页码标识。

• The journal is read by researchers who build systems and by those who reason about them, and it serves both.该刊的读者既有构建系统的研究者，也有对系统作推理的研究者，它同时服务两者。

• Papers on industrial deployment appear, and the journal carries accounts of what went wrong as well as what worked.工业部署的论文也有出现，该刊对失败之处与奏效之处一并记述。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Chenyang Lu of Washington University in St. Louis.主编是圣路易斯华盛顿大学的（Chenyang Lu）。

• The editor has written on what it would take for cyber-physical systems to become a scientific and engineering discipline in their own right.主编曾撰文论述信息物理系统要成为一门自立的科学与工程学科需要什么。

• An editorial board supports the editor, and its members cover the several branches of the subject.一支编委会为主编提供支持，成员覆盖该学科的各个分支。

• Associate editors handle the flow of manuscripts, and they are drawn from computing and from the engineering disciplines the journal serves.若干副编辑处理稿件流，他们来自计算以及该刊所服务的各工程学科。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the association's system and are sent to independent referees for peer review.稿件通过协会的系统投递，并送交独立审稿人进行同行评审。

• The journal publishes an updated peer review policy, and it uses a set of questions and answers to explain what the policy means in practice.该刊公布修订后的同行评审政策，并以一组问答说明该政策在实践中意味着什么。

• Authors are expected to declare competing interests, and referees are asked to do the same before they accept a manuscript.作者须声明利益冲突，审稿人在接下稿件之前也被要求如此。

• The use of large language models is addressed explicitly, so that neither author nor referee is left guessing what is allowed.大型语言模型的使用被明确处理，使作者与审稿人都不必猜测何者被允许。

• Open access publication carries a charge, and the association sets out the options available to an author.开放获取出版收取费用，该协会说明作者可选的各项方案。

• The editorial office answers queries by email and guides a manuscript from submission to a decision.编辑部以电子邮件答复查询，并引导稿件自投稿走到决定。