Learning Approach for Smart Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems

Modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) need to be able to operate efficiently and reliably within continually changing, uncertain, and unanticipated environments. Namely, these systems should be capable of learning, automatically reconfiguring themselves, and be able to cooperate and collaborate with other CPSs. In a nutshell, exhibit human-like, smart capabilities in an autonomic manner. However, engineering such systems is all but trivial, primarily because we need to develop systems at design-time that are capable of autonomously coping with the uncertainty and change at runtime. Therefore, not only the importance of self-adaptivity as a system's feature increases, but it becomes a fundamental approach for the systems to continue meeting their functional specifications, fulfilling their business objectives while preserving the performance-despite all the runtime changes that the system may encounter. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes the initial research vision and agenda with the envisioned contributions towards an approach for self-adaptation of cooperative, smart CPSs through shared knowledge and learning.