Collaborative Model‐based Systems Engineering for Cyber‐Physical Systems, with a Building Automation Case Study
John S. Fitzgerald, Carl Gamble, Richard Payne, Peter Gorm Larsen, Stylianos Basagiannis, Alie El‐Din Mady · INCOSE International Symposium · 2016
Abstract We describe an approach to the model‐based engineering of cyber‐physical systems that permits the coupling of diverse discrete‐event and continuous‐time models and their simulators. A case study in the building automation domain demonstrates how such co‐models and co‐simulation can promote early cooperation between disciplines within a systems engineering process before the expensive commitment is made to integration in physical prototypes. We identify areas for future advances in foundations, methods and tools to realise the potential of a co‐modelling approach within established systems engineering processes.