Title: Exploring the complete data path for data interoperability in cyber-physical systems

Authors: Athanasios Kiourtis; Argyro Mavrogiorgou; Dimosthenis Kyriazis; Ilias Maglogiannis; Marinos Themistocleous

Addresses: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli and Dimitriou Str, GR-18534 Piraeus, Greece ' Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli and Dimitriou Str, GR-18534 Piraeus, Greece ' Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli and Dimitriou Str, GR-18534 Piraeus, Greece ' Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli and Dimitriou Str, GR-18534 Piraeus, Greece ' University of Nicosia, Cyprus and University of Piraeus, Greece

Abstract: The amount of digital information increases ten-fold every year, owing to the exponential increase of cyber-physical systems (CPS), real and virtual internet-connected sources. Most researches are focused on data processing and inter-connection fields, leading to the question concerning the interoperable utilisation of data: if data is efficiently processed, how can unknown data be utilised in a different nature's application? A three-step approach is presented addressing this question, where following the data-lifecycle, a known CPS dataset is firstly stored into domain-specific language, then it gets translated into domain-agnostic language, and finally, using the fitting function of an ANN, it is compared with an unknown dataset, resulting to the translation of the unknown dataset into the first dataset's domain. A scenario of that approach is provided, analysing the data interoperability challenges and needs, emerging from today's internet of everything evolution, studying the fields of data annotation, semantics, modelling, and characterisation.

Keywords: cyber-physical systems; CPS; semantic; interoperability; domain agnostic; domain specific; data path; data lifecycle.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.096714

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2018 Vol.12 No.4, pp.339 - 349

Received: 02 Jun 2016
Accepted: 20 Oct 2016
Published online: 10 Dec 2018 *

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