Automatic Identifying Interaction Components in Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract

Due to diverse set of heterogeneous computing devices communicating with one another and fusing with physical components in Cyber-Physical Systems, software engineers may use different tools and/or modeling languages to formally describe or verify the system properties. As a result, the integration of these diverse constituents poses key challenges such as task for identifying interactions of components to be synthesized for a function in the systems. Although existing studies such as ontology and integration semantic languages have been used for specifying interactions of components in a Cyber-Physical System, these are still not applicable to discover the component interactions in collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems. It is due to the fact that functionalities of Cyber-Physical Systems are generally realized through interactions among multiple systems in a collaborative environment. This paper proposes a model interaction language, CyPhyML+ which can identify component interactions of realized functions in collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems. We show the proposed approach validity and applicability via an Automatic Incident Detection System.