Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems
In the context of cyber-physical systems (CPS), understanding system behaviors is crucial for ensuring reliability, efficiency, and trust. However, due to the increasing complexity of the modern CPS, gaining such understanding is becoming more challenging. In this article we provide a foundation for...
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| description | In the context of cyber-physical systems (CPS), understanding system behaviors is crucial for ensuring reliability, efficiency, and trust. However, due to the increasing complexity of the modern CPS, gaining such understanding is becoming more challenging. In this article we provide a foundation for explaining system behavior through detected system events. To this end, the article proposes a technology-agnostic, semantic event-handling module to address the challenge of enhancing explainability within CPS. This module is designed to be part of the common architecture for Explainable CPS and, therefore, can be integrated seamlessly into existing CPS frameworks by providing different interfaces to access detected events. Two case studies in the smart building and smart grid domain are carried out to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the approach, utilizing an open-source software stack for the prototypical implementation. A qualitative evaluation of the proposed approach, based on the ISO/IEC 25010:2023, was used to analyze the software design. Our evaluation result shows that the semantic event-handling module is appropriate as a generic approach to handling events within a CPS. The module becomes a foundation for incorporating explainability into the system, which is needed as a foundation to ensure human trust and enable informed decision-making. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b2aa0d133c874affbd104198aa6e45672025-01-17T00:01:34ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society2644-12842024-01-01592894510.1109/OJIES.2024.344700110643286Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical SystemsGernot Steindl0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9035-9206Tobias Schwarzinger1https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1433-2049Katrin Schreiberhuber2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1815-8167Fajar J. Ekaputra3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4569-2496Institute of Computer Engineering, Research Unit Automation Systems, Technical University Wien, Vienna, AustriaInstitute of Computer Engineering, Research Unit Automation Systems, Technical University Wien, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaInstitute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, AustriaIn the context of cyber-physical systems (CPS), understanding system behaviors is crucial for ensuring reliability, efficiency, and trust. However, due to the increasing complexity of the modern CPS, gaining such understanding is becoming more challenging. In this article we provide a foundation for explaining system behavior through detected system events. To this end, the article proposes a technology-agnostic, semantic event-handling module to address the challenge of enhancing explainability within CPS. This module is designed to be part of the common architecture for Explainable CPS and, therefore, can be integrated seamlessly into existing CPS frameworks by providing different interfaces to access detected events. Two case studies in the smart building and smart grid domain are carried out to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the approach, utilizing an open-source software stack for the prototypical implementation. A qualitative evaluation of the proposed approach, based on the ISO/IEC 25010:2023, was used to analyze the software design. Our evaluation result shows that the semantic event-handling module is appropriate as a generic approach to handling events within a CPS. The module becomes a foundation for incorporating explainability into the system, which is needed as a foundation to ensure human trust and enable informed decision-making.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10643286/Cyber-physical systems (CPSs)event detectionsemantic web |
| spellingShingle | Gernot Steindl Tobias Schwarzinger Katrin Schreiberhuber Fajar J. Ekaputra Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) event detection semantic web |
| title | Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems |
| title_full | Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems |
| title_fullStr | Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems |
| title_short | Toward Semantic Event-Handling for Building Explainable Cyber-Physical Systems |
| title_sort | toward semantic event handling for building explainable cyber physical systems |
| topic | Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) event detection semantic web |
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