A new paradigm and meta-model for cyber-physical-social systems

Bereket Abera Yilma (1, 2) , Yannick Naudet (1) , Hervé Panetto (2)

1 LIST - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
2 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

The notion of Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) and similar concepts using different acronyms emerged as a major paradigm shift to facilitate the interaction between human and Cyber-Physical System (CPS). However, human interaction behaviour is the result of multiple social dimensions governed by complex environmental, cultural and contextual factors which are not yet fully understood. Additionally, works in this direction still lack a well established systemic foundation. Thus, handling properly the social factor in Human-CPS interaction remains an open challenge. In this paper, we present a new perspective and a formalisation for the CPSS paradigm, which is grounded on the theory of systems. The aim of this is to provide a general framework to handle social dimensions in Human-CPS interactions. We propose a meta-model, which provides a conceptual ground to design CPSS spaces where CPS are enhanced with social capabilities.

Mots clés: Cyber-Physical-Social system; Cyber-Physical System; Human-Machine Interaction

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Bereket Abera Yilma, Yannick Naudet, Hervé Panetto. A new paradigm and meta-model for cyber-physical-social systems. 21st IFAC World Congress, IFAC 2020, Jul 2020, Berlin, Germany. pp.10949-10954, ⟨10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2841⟩. ⟨hal-02921969⟩