SYSE.8:11 - SoTA and Source Use
Offering and provider design distinguishes promises, access, participation, providers, Methods, performed Work, obligations, fulfilment and acceptance. Recover the relevant subjects and relations before drawing conclusions about a product-to-service transition, a shared project referent, attribution to an Agent, or a market or provider gain.
| Source line | Use here | Epistemic boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Brambila-Macias, Sakao, and Kowalkowski (2018), Braga Junior, de Toledo, and González (2020), and Kim (2020) | Support interdisciplinary PSS design, plurality of development Methods, and several possible representation structures. | Use the reviews and case comparison to generate alternatives. Select ontology, practical Method, and representation for the current engineering decision. |
| Brax et al. (2021), Åkesson et al. (2024), Menon et al. (2024), and Zhao et al. (2025) | Support configuration-dependent provider performance, SME limits, mixed economic and environmental outcomes, and fragmented technical–social–ecological integration. | Use the studies as bounded evidence. Choose the enterprise arrangement from its use and evidence; assess prevalence separately; qualify any reusable provider-design Method through further cases. |
Current FPF A.2.3, A.1.SCR, A.13, A.15.1, A.15.6, F.6, A.6.P:4.11a, A.10, A.22, C.11, C.17, E.10.ROLE, and E.18.NET | Supplies promise content, actual-System recognition versus intended reference, actual-performer and Work identity, optional assignment-bound attribution, project-focus distinctions, service-word recovery, evidence use, selected structures, value and temporal distinctions, role-word recovery, and transformation-flow structure. | Use these general distinctions directly. SYSE.8 adds the engineering comparison of offering and provider arrangements and the bounded account returned to later decisions. |
Reconsider the affected source-dependent claim when later evidence changes a practical Method, performance boundary, or receiving engineering decision. Treat academic or institutional visibility as evidence of publication or declared use; assess enacted prevalence separately and import only the distinctions needed by the current decision.