Towards Reference Architectures for Trustworthy Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems: Reference Architectures as Boundary Objects
This is an incremental work-in-progress study for systems engineering experts in industry and academia.
The paper tackles the problem of developing trustworthy collaborative cyber-physical systems by exploring reference architectures as boundary objects, with preliminary interview results revealing challenges in their use and identifying trustworthiness attributes as an open question.
This paper presents our work-in-progress study on reference architectures as boundary objects for realizing trustworthy collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Furthermore, the preliminary results from interviews with systems engineering experts from industry and academia are also discussed. The interview results reveal challenges in using reference architectures during the system development process. Furthermore, exactly which trustworthiness attributes (security, availability, reliability, etc.) should be addressed to realize trustworthy collaborative CPS is identified as an open question, which we will address in our future work.