  Businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, aiming to start
up in Model-Based Design (MBD) face difficult choices from a wide range of
methods, notations and tools before making the significant investments in
planning, procurement and training necessary to deploy new approaches
successfully. In the development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) this is
exacerbated by the diversity of formalisms covering computation, physical and
human processes. In this paper, we propose the use of a cloud-enabled and open
collaboration platform that allows businesses to offer models, tools and other
assets, and permits others to access these on a pay-per-use basis as a means of
lowering barriers to the adoption of MBD technology, and to promote
experimentation in a sandbox environment.
