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Toward Cognizant Cyber-Physical Systems: Addressing Fundamental Transdisciplinary Issues

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 335

Special Issue Editor

Professor of Computer Aided Design Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: cognitive engineering; cyber-physical systems; systematic design research

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Though research in smart cyberphysical systems (SCPSs) and their design methodologies has yet not reached its hype, many researchers have initiated research toward cognizant cyber-physical systems (CCPSs), which offer even higher-level cognitive capabilities. Cognizance is deemed the next challenging level of intellectualization that cyber-physical systems can achieve. The development of this class of intellectualized engineered systems necessitates the use of multi- and transdisciplinary research approaches and knowledge. The reason is that fundamental insights and scientific knowledge are probably still missing, as well as dedicated design/implementation methodologies and effective information technological solutions. While smartness of SCPSs typically assumes three system-level features, namely (i) having purposeful problem-solving knowledge, (ii) building synthetic contextual awareness, and (iii) complex reasoning mechanisms for problem solving, cognizance of CCPSs necessitates some form of (iv) reproduced understanding of semantics and (v) algorithmic abstractions. The goal of this Special Issue is to cast light on the recent developments and research results in all of these domains. It aims to include papers on philosophical, theoretical, methodological, computational, implementation, applications, experimentations, and road-mapping issues and tested proposals. The general research questions include, among others:

  • What is cognizance in the context of intellectualized cyber-physical systems?
  • In what forms can system-level understanding be implemented computationally?
  • How can system cognizance be operationalized in real-life problem solving?
  • How can self-managed system-level learning contribute to system understanding and cognizance?

Relevant subtopics of research include but are not limited to the following:

  • Ontological, epistemological, methodological, and cognitive fundamentals of cognizant systems;
  • Computational constituents and architectural constructs for system cognizance;
  • Sensing, data processing, and awareness building for system-level understanding;
  • The sense–recognize–interpret–justify cycle as the basis of system-level understanding;
  • Use of computational ontologies in recognizing and understanding micro-worlds;
  • Phenomena inside and outside the system boundary to be physically and virtually detected for understanding;
  • Cognizance of operational objectives, expected behaviour, performance obligations, and service provisioning of systems;
  • The role of interplaying functional abilities and performance experiences in cognizance;
  • From synthetic awareness through synthetic comprehension to synthetic consciousness (or vice versa?);
  • The role and possibilities of modeling consciousness.

How this topic fit with the scope of "Sensors"

  • Hardware and software sensors and sensor structures and networks provide informational input for system cognizance. This the relationship between “sensors” (in its general meaning of this notion) and cognizant cyber-physical systems is obvious.

Prof. Dr. Imre Horváth
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • philosophical/theoretical fundamentals 
  • artificial cognizance 
  • machine understanding 
  • intellectualized/cognitive systems 
  • synthetic awareness 
  • computational system cognizance 
  • information sufficience/deficits 
  • data-driven comprehension of systems 
  • self-supervising systems 
  • cognizant cyber-physical systems

Published Papers

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