This paper focuses on value co-creation in the context of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We investigate how value is co-created in the mining and construction industry, where the intelligent equipment are examples of CPSs. We take an interpretive research approach and study a global corporation, which manufactures tools and equipment for the mining and construction industry. The data collection...

As Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) evolve they will be increasingly relied on to support time-critical monitoring and control activities. Further, many CPSs that utilize Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN) technologies require energy harvesting methods to extend their lifetimes. For this important system class, there are currently no effective approaches that balance system lifetime with system perf...

Security challenges are increasing in distributed cyber-physical systems (CPSs), which integrate computation and physical processes. System security is complicated by both the temporal and safety constraints of CPSs. In this paper, we investigate the potential for using system-level anomaly detection in a component-based RTOS to detect system compromises and aberrant behavior. We investigate a ...

Pervasive healthcare systems, smart grids and unmanned aircraft systems are examples of cyber physical systems (CPSs) that have become highly integrated in the modern world. As this integration deepens, the importance of securing these systems increases. In order to identify gaps and propose research directions in CPS intrusion detection research, we survey the literature of this area. Our appr...

Power system stabilizers (PSSs) must be capable of providing appropriate stabilization signals over a broad range of operating conditions and disturbances. The main idea of this paper is changing a classic PSS (CPSS) to an adaptive PSS using genetic algorithm. This new genetic algorithm based on adaptive PSS (GAPSS) improves power system damping, considerably. The controller design issue is for...

Real-life Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as automotive vehicles, building automation systems, and groups of unmanned air vehicles are monitored and controlled by networked control systems. The overall system dynamics emerges from the interaction among physical dynamics, computational dynamics, and communication networks. Network uncertainties such as time-varying delay and packet loss caus...

Access control is an essential security component in protecting sensitive data and services from unauthorized access to the resources in mission-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). CPSs are different from conventional information processing systems in such that they involve interactions between the cyber world and the physical world. Therefore, existing access control models cannot be used ...

We evaluated the effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on seizure frequency in adult patients with medically intractable extratemporal lobe epilepsy (ETLE). Seven patients with medically intractable ETLE received low-frequency rTMS at 0.9 Hz, basically two sets of 15 min stimulation per day for five days in a week, with the stimulus intensity of 90% of rest...

Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a technique to improve the quality and productivity of developing (via configuration) Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs). A CPS often contains many heterogeneous components with complex constraints relevant to product configuration in the context of PLE. Manual configuration is error-prone and has low productivity since managing and manipulating such constraints in ...