Authors:
Spyros Loizou
1
;
Amal Elgammal
2
;
Indika Kumara
3
;
Panayiotis Christodoulou
1
;
Mike P. Papazoglou
3
and
Andreas S. Andreou
1
Affiliations:
1
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol and Cyprus
;
2
Department of Computers & Information, Cairo University and Egypt
;
3
Department of Economics and Management, Tilburg University and The Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Product-service Systems, Smart Product, Customization, Product-oriented Configuration Language, PoCL, Gamification, PSS Monitoring, Complex Event Processing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Internet of Things
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Operational Research
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
In the traditional software development cycle, requirements gathering is considered the most critical phase. Getting the requirements right early has become a dogma in software engineering because the correction of erroneous or incomplete requirements in later software development phases becomes overly expensive. For product-service systems (PSS), this dogma and standard requirements engineering (RE) approaches are not appropriate because classical RE is considered concluded once a product service is delivered. This paper proposes a novel framework that enables the customer and the product engineer to co-design smart products by integrating three novel and advanced technologies to support: view-based modelling, visualization and monitoring, i.e., Product-Oriented Configuration Language (PoCL), gamification and Complex Event Processing (CEP), respectively. These create a “digital-twin” model of the connected ‘smart’ factory of the future. The framework is formally founded on the novel
concept of manufacturing blueprints, which are formalized knowledge-intensive structures that provide the basis for actionable PSS and production “intelligence” and a move toward more fact-based manufacturing decisions. Implementation and validation of the proposed framework through real-life case studies are ongoing to validate the applicability, utility and efficacy of the proposed solutions.
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