Bounded Event-Time Execution Architecture

Abstract

Contemporary cyber-physical and system-of-systems environments maintain sensing, synchronisation, coordination, and distributed processing capabilities across heterogeneous operational domains. Existing representational architectures define mechanisms for observation, modelling, and state coordination; however, operational state resolution remains externalised, deferred, or distributed across independent systems. Therefore, state formation proceeds through reconciliation, eventual consistency, or retrospective reconstruction rather than through bounded event-time execution. Bounded operational state-resolution semantics are not maintained within the execution domain itself.

This paper defines a bounded event-time execution architecture and an integrated Concept of Operations (CONOPS) in which admissible actions resolve into operational system state within bounded domains. The architecture is defined at both functional and operational levels.

Internal implementation constructs, deployment-specific mechanisms, and parameterisation remain abstracted from the architectural definition. Representational Digital Twin systems constitute one operational context but do not define the architectural scope of the contribution.

The architecture defines bounded event-time execution semantics and operational state-resolution behaviour for cyber-physical and system-of-systems environments. The architecture is defined as a specification-stage operational execution architecture intended to support subsequent implementation, deployment, and empirical evaluation.