Towards self-adaptation for cyber-physical systems using a distributed MAPE-K schema over XMPP

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) may fail during runtime on supporting decision making if they are not capable of detecting and correcting their own failures. Thus, it has been proposed that CPSs should be self-aware, context-aware and goal-aware. In this paper we present preliminary results about how an architecture built over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) may implement a distributed MAPE-K schema in order to support the implementation of the self-adaptation capability in CPSs. We present a basic example where failures on Things are simulated in order to test the self-adaptation capability.