A new Paradigm and Meta-Model for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems

摘要

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.