Keywords :
Cyber-Physical System; Cyber-Physical-Social System; Meta-model; Personalisation; System-of-systems; Systematic literature review; Cyber-physical systems (CPS); Design Principles; Domain independents; Future research directions; Research challenges; Scientific literature; Systematic literature review (SLR); Computer Science (all); Engineering (all); Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction; General Engineering; General Computer Science
Abstract :
[en] The notion of Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) is an emerging concept developed as a result of the need to understand the impact of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) on humans and vice versa. This paradigm shift from CPS to CPSS was mainly attributed to the increasing use of sensor enabled smart devices and the tight link with the users. The concept of CPSS has been around for over a decade and it has gained an increasing attention over the past few years. The evolution to incorporate human aspects in the CPS research has unlocked a number of research challenges. Particularly human dynamics brings additional complexity that is yet to be explored. The exploration to conceptualise the notion of CPSS has been partially addressed in few scientific literatures. Although its conceptualisation has always been use-case dependent. Thus, there is a lack of generic view as most works focus on specific domains. Furthermore the systemic core and design principles linking it with the theory of systems are loose. This work aims at addressing these issues by first exploring and analysing scientific literatures to understand the complete spectrum of CPSS through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Thereby identifying the state-of-the-art perspectives on CPSS regarding definitions, underlining principles and application areas. Subsequently, based on the findings of the SLR, we propose a domain-independent definition and a meta-model for CPSS, grounded in the Theory of Systems. Finally a discussion on feasible future research directions is presented based on the systemic notion and the proposed meta-models.
Funding text :
Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) is an emerging research topic resulting from the introduction of a Social dimension to the existing Cyber-Physical System (CPS) research. The notion of CPS was originally derived from an engineering perspective with the support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) ( Koubâa and Andersson, 2009; Gunes et al., 2014 ). The objective of CPS was mainly controlling and monitoring physical environments and phenomena via the integration of sensing, computing, and actuating devices. In parallel the notion of Internet of Things (IoT) which originates in the late 1990s 1 1 took off as a paradigm with the support of the European Commission from a Computer Science perspective ( Gubbi et al., 2013 ). The emergence of IoT played an indispensable role for the orchestration of the physical and cyber systems with the goal of connecting tools and electronic equipment to the Internet and develop a network of computers and objects.
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