NDLI: Compositional Engineering Frameworks for Development of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: A Critical Survey of the Current State of Progression

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Horváth, Imre Tepjit, Sirasak Rusák, Zoltán
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	Various system-engineering frameworks (SEFs) have been developed for composable systems, whose overall operation is the sum of the operations of their components. However, smart cyber-physical systems (S-CPSs) are compositional in nature. Their reasoning capability and system knowledge assume an ‘ampliative’ (inter)operation of all hardware, software, or cyberware components. The need for SEFs that support synthesis, modeling, analysis, simulation, verification, and validation of S-CPSs is recognized in the literature. The objective of this paper is a critically review the state of development of compositionality enabling frameworks. Both quantitative and qualitative literature studies were conducted in combination with critical system thinking. The reasoning model used in the qualitative analysis was derived based on the findings of the quantitative analysis. The major observations are: (i) the notion of compositionality is not studied extensively in the context of S-CPSs that do not obey the principle of reductionism, (ii) methodological support of implementation of compositional CPSs seems to be in its infancy, (iii) SEFs may play a crucial role in synthesis, modeling and implementation of S-CPSs, and (iv) SEFs for compositional system design may be realized using the principles of semantic knowledge fusion or meta-synthesis. Our follow up research targets a formal definition and computational implementation of a testable prototype of a specific SEF tool supporting compositional design of reasoning mechanisms.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division Computers and Information in Engineering Division
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780791851722
DOI	10.1115/DETC2018-85107
Volume Number	Volume 1A: 38th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Language	English
Publisher Date	2018-08-26
Publisher Place	Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Simulation Computer software Systems engineering Cyber-physical systems Hardware Modeling analysis Engineering prototypes Modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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