2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities

Held in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2024)

Guimarães, Portugal, 14-17 May 2024

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Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (JSERD).

A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is composed of the physical, networking, and computational elements controlled or monitored by algorithms. CPS must include requirements for security, safety, privacy, reliability, resilience, and the processing of massive amounts of information. According to NIST, "CPS will bring advances in personalized health care, emergency response, traffic flow management, and electric power generation and delivery, as well as in many other areas now just being envisioned.  Therefore, the economic and social potential of such systems is huge, and large investments are being made worldwide to develop these systems.  

The world is confronting numerous challenges that should be dealt with in the near future, such as tackling climate change and environmental degradation, producing affordable and clean energy, eliminating poverty, and ensuring education, health, and social protection for all. CPS can be relevant in addressing social, environmental, economic, and governance sustainability. Regarding social sustainability, it is imperative to identify early development approaches for CPS systems that promote strong and fair communities, such as social and health equity, community development, human rights, and social justice. These human and social characteristics and interactions are brought into the CPS due to the human-centric computation shift to the Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS), which is the target of our workshop. 

The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners i) to discuss their current work focusing on requirements, design, frameworks, and empirical studies about emerging opportunities and challenges of CPSS for sustainability,  ii) to identify the main challenges and define a research agenda on the topic of CPSS for sustainability.

The workshop is held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science in Guimarães, Portugal, 14-17 May 2024.

1. CPSS requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for sustainability;

2. CPSS (e.g. IoT, Big Data) quality requirements for sustainability;

3. Smart cities requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for social sustainability;

4. Smart cities quality requirements for social sustainability;

5. CPSS to specific domain (health, tourism, mobility...) regarding sustainability;

6. Interaction design in CPSS for sustainability;

7. (Multi) user experience design and assessment in CPSS for sustainability;

8. Privacy requirements for CPSS regarding sustainability;

9. Ethics in CPSS regarding sustainability;

10. Teaching and learning CPSS for sustainability.