Paper Info
Title
Making interoperability visible: Data visualization of cyber-physical systems development tool chains
Abstract
Cyber-physical system (CPS) development cycles include various engineering disciplines, artefacts, and areas of expertise. There are powerful software tools used in these cycles, which can be put to good use by one individual discipline but are challenging to integrate with other tools. This paper discusses a node-link diagram (NLD) visualization technique that can be used to visualize interoperability in CPS development tool chains. The purpose is to help tool chain developers assess the current interoperability status and make decisions on integration scenarios accordingly. To this end, a case study is introduced and explained as an example. Data about the tool chain, which contains different structures relating to the software tools usage and the interactions between them, are provided by ABB Corporate Research Centre. These structures are used in creation of visualizations for making interoperability visible in CPS development tool chains and applicability of each visualization technique is discussed with the interoperability perspective. In this study, we also exercised a clustering algorithm for an extended case study and discussed the use of visualizations to improve interoperability in CPS development environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jii.2016.09.002
Journal of Industrial Information Integration
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cyber-physical system interoperability,Interoperability visualization,Development tool chains,Data visualization,Node-link diagram
Journal
4
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2452-414X
2
0.49
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Didem Gurdur1113.16
Jad El-khoury2989.35
Tiberiu Seceleanu315928.67
Luka Lednicki4275.01