CPS Orchestrator with Distributed Image Processing Pipeline

This repository contains a CPS workload orchestrator along with a distributed image processing pipeline developed as part of the
Heterogeneous Application Orchestration in Cyber-Physical Systems (DAIS 2026) paper submission. The system demonstrates NFR-driven adaptive
orchestration across heterogeneous devices and execution formats in a reproducible way. It is therefore provided as open research output in the
form of a software artefact. 

CPS offer heterogeneous compute resources in the form of a computing continuum with physical constraints. These constraints extend beyond
typical compute characteristics (processors, memory) towards power, heat and other external factors, and must be reflected by appropriate
software architectures and a translation of these architectural decisions into runtime adaptation decisions. Exploiting them in the appropriate
manner leads to sustainable software operation, one of the goals of the TaSSAreCt research project (https://tassarect.github.io/) – Towards
Sustainable Software Architectures for Cyber-physical Systems of Systems. 

The details of the orchestrator and the exemplary pipeline as well as steps to undertake in reproducibility and repeatability studies are described
in the file PIPELINE.md