Deriving Manageable Transdisciplinary Research Models for Complicated Problematics Associated with Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems: Part 1 - Theoretical and Methodological Foundation

Deriving Manageable Transdisciplinary Research Models for Complicated Problematics Associated with Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems: Part 1 - Theoretical and Methodological Foundation

Horvath, I. (TU Delft Cyber-Physical Systems)
Abou Eddahab-Burke, F. (TU Delft System Engineering)

2024

There are many large-scale, transdisciplinary research problematics associated with next-generation cyber-physical systems, which are difficult to capture, analyze, and transfer into sharable research models. This two-part paper is intended to contribute to a better understanding and to provide a systematic approach to describing, scoping, and specifying manageable contents for transdisciplinary research models. Part 1 of the paper analyzes the essence and the interplays of the most important current trends, and creates a robust theoretical and methodological foundation for capturing and scoping research problematics associated with the evolving paradigm of cyber-physical systems. The elaboration and deployment of the proposed approach are discussed in detail in Part 2. Besides the overall procedural framework of the proposed holistic systematic combinational breakdown, all steps are explained and exemplified in an illustrative real-life example. The discussion in both Parts concludes with a number of propositions and further research opportunities concerning the theoretical and methodological foundations.

Megatrends
transdiciplinary
supradisciplinary research
cyber-physical-social-human systems
research problematics
complexity
scoping process
research models

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https://doi.org/10.22545/2024/00254

1949-0569

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 15, 251-273

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© 2024 I. Horvath, F. Abou Eddahab-Burke