A Review on Cyber-Physical Systems: Models and Architectures

The increasing proliferation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in industry and academia bring researchers to work on CPS architectures and models seeking for enhancing the performance and gaining the full potential of the system. This work aims to provide a holistic view of the initiatives done during the last five years in modeling and designing CPS. We define three major classes of CPS covering Smart Healthcare, Smart Manufacturing, and Smart City. We also provide a review of the recent developed architectures and models for each class. Based on the surveyed literature, we identified many open issues and we suggested possible future research directions.