1st International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Social Systems for
Sustainability: Preface
Isabel Sofia Brito1, Nelly Condori-Fernandez 2 and Leticia Duboc 3
1
  Instituto Politécnico de Beja, R. Pedro Soares, 7800-295, Beja, Portugal
2
  Universidad de Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
3
  La Salle – Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

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    Welcome to the 1st International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Social Systems for Sustainability
(CPSS4Sus). The workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and
opportunities brought by Cyber-Physical System (CPSS) to promote strong and fair communities. In
particular, we are interested in how issues, such as social and health equity, community development,
human rights and social justice can be integrated into the early development of CPS.
    We received 3 submissions and all submissions were reviewed by at least four members of the
Program Committee. During our workshop, we discussed two very interesting proposals. Ramalu and
Törngren presented the paper Towards an Architectural Framework and Method for Realizing
Trustworthy Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. The paper outlines a framework to facilitate the
considerations of trustworthiness in CPS systems, exemplifying its application in two intelligent
transportation systems use cases. Corte-Cornax, Lago and Roncancio presented the short paper Cyber
Physical System and Environmental Issues: a Smart Home Case Study. Their work discusses how life-
cycle analysis of physical devices and data can help CPS designers to converge into an equilibrium of
utility, performance and minimal environmental impact.
    After the presentations, we carried out discussions with experts on the field. We used the questions
from the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) to reflect on how CPS may affect various
concerns in the social and individual dimensions of sustainability. This discussion led to the
identification of research questions for the CPSS4Sus community, which were further explored by the
experts during the final panel on Challenges and Opportunities in Engineering CPSS for Sustainability.
    We are grateful to the Program Committee* for their reviews and very valuable feedback, as well as
to the experts who so generously shared their experience with us. We thank all the authors who
submitted their work to CPSS4Sus'22 and we congratulate those whose papers appear in the final
proceedings. We look forward to grow a community around this interesting and important topic and to
see you again in the near future!
    Best regards,
    Isabel, Nelly and Leticia

    * Program Committee:
    Ana Moreira
    Birgit Penzenstadler
    Claudia P. Ayala
    Colin C. Venters
    Coral Calero
    Elisabetta Di Nitto
    Grace Lewis
    Ivan Machado
    Jari Porras
    João Araújo

Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, May 17-20, 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
EMAIL: isabel.sofia@ipbeja.pt (A. 1); n.condori.fernandez@udc.es (A. 2); l.duboc@salle.url.edu (A. 3)
ORCID: 0000-0002-7556-4367 (A. 1); 0000-0002-1044-3871 (A. 2); 0000-0002-7437-2101 (A. 3)
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