Towards a Generic Enterprise Systems Architecture Based on Cyber-Physical Systems Principles

Part 7: Cyber-Physical SystemsInternational audienceSystems that can tightly integrate physical with virtual components have represented a priority for the research in the area of ICT. Research efforts have been concentrated in domains such as: Internet of Things, Internet of Services and recently in the domain of Cyber Physical Systems. An important driver for the area of research is represented by the large-scale integration of the physical and cyber worlds. The authors propose a Generic Information System Architecture for Cyber Intelligent Enterprise by taking into account the paradigms of Cyber-Physical Systems

A Perceptive Interface for Intelligent Cyber Enterprises

Large scale, complex, networked enterprises, as may be considered (trans)national energy systems, multi-national manufacturing enterprises, smart cities a.s.o. are structures that can be characterized as systems of systems (SoS) and, as such, require specific modelling paradigms and control architectures to ensure their successful running. Their main characteristic is the necessity of solving practically one-of-a-kind problems with respect to the external context and internal configuration, thus dealing with dynamically evolving flows of data and information. The paper introduces the concept of intelligent cyber-enterprise, as an integrating paradigm that uses information and knowledge dynamics, in order to model and control SoS, especially focusing on the importance of appropriately adapt external and internal perception of an enterprise through a new generation of sensorial systems—the perceptive interfaces. The authors analyze sensing and perception in relation to intelligent cyber enterprise model and propose an implementation for a perceptive system interface