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ICITS 2019: Information Technology and Systems pp 93–102Cite as

Agent-Oriented Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber-physical systems are the most relevant mainstream in the contemporary automation of industry, smart cities, and ubiquitous systems. Although most of its components and their behaviors are software-based elements, there are no suitable approaches for specifying, designing, testing and delivering cyber physical systems under a software engineering point of view, i.e. having a systematic, disciplined and measurable approach to its development. This paper describes the suitability of agent oriented software engineering for confronting the development of cyber-physical systems. The contribution is focused on two labels, first, we show a set of requirements for an cyber-physical engineering methodology, that were gathered by means of a literature review, and, second, we present a match between agent-oriented principles and the collected requirements. To illustrate some examples we use Tropos, one of the most disseminated agent-oriented methodologies.

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    Carlos Cares & Samuel Sepúlveda

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Cares, C., Sepúlveda, S., Navarro, C. (2019). Agent-Oriented Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Paredes, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11890-7_10

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