Emotional Processes for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience

Abstract : The cyber-physical systems deployment takes up an ever-increasing number of fields of application. The variety of platforms used for implementing cyber-physical systems and the dynamic interconnection of their components make the resilience issue of these systems very important. Our work aims to use the knowledge from human and social sciences, particularly to inspire from the emotional processes for creating an agent architecture that increases the cyber-physical systems resilience. Emotional inspiration occurs in the individual decision-making processes as well as in the social coordination mechanisms. In addition, one of the principal hypotheses in our research is that the multi-agent paradigm is suitable for integrating emotional processes into cyber-physical systems.