A Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform for Model-Based Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
This addresses adoption challenges for businesses in CPS development, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing cloud and collaboration concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of high barriers to adopting Model-Based Design (MBD) for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, by proposing a cloud-based collaboration platform that allows pay-per-use access to models and tools, aiming to lower costs and promote experimentation.
Businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, aiming to start up in Model-Based Design (MBD) face difficult choices from a wide range of methods, notations and tools before making the significant investments in planning, procurement and training necessary to deploy new approaches successfully. In the development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) this is exacerbated by the diversity of formalisms covering computation, physical and human processes. In this paper, we propose the use of a cloud-enabled and open collaboration platform that allows businesses to offer models, tools and other assets, and permits others to access these on a pay-per-use basis as a means of lowering barriers to the adoption of MBD technology, and to promote experimentation in a sandbox environment.