Authors:
Peter Gorm Larsen
1
;
Hugo Daniel Macedo
1
;
John Fitzgerald
2
;
Holger Pfeifer
3
;
Martin Benedikt
4
;
Stefano Tonetta
5
;
Angelo Marguglio
6
;
Sergio Gusmeroli
7
and
George Suciu Jr.
8
Affiliations:
1
DIGIT, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
;
2
School of Computing, Newcastle University, U.K.
;
3
fortiss, Germany
;
4
Virtual Vehicle, Austria
;
5
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
;
6
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Italy
;
7
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
;
8
BEIA Consult, Romania
Keyword(s):
Model-based Design, Tools, Models, Collaboration Platform.
Abstract:
Businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, aiming to start up in Model-Based Design (MBD) face difficult choices from a wide range of methods, notations and tools before making the significant investments in planning, procurement and training necessary to deploy new approaches successfully. In the development of Cyber-Physical Systems this is exacerbated by the diversity of formalisms covering computation, physical and human processes. In this paper, we propose the use of a cloud-enabled and open collaboration platform that allows businesses to offer models, tools and other assets, and permits others to access these on a pay-per-use basis as a means of lowering barriers to the adoption of MBD technology, and to promote experimentation in a sandbox environment.