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.

An Emotion-Inspired Anomaly Detection Approach for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience

“…Figure 1 illustrates the R-ECM architecture, which integrates emotional processes (in blue) that allow CPSs to become more resilient [13].…”

“…The functions and interactions of the layers are illustrated in figure 3. In our previous work [13], we well explained the functioning of the architecture and its layers.…”

“…We used several quantitative measurements to evaluate our approach. Our assessment measures are mainly based on the resilience features mentioned in [13] which are: critical functions preservation, reactivity in terms of anomaly detection, anomaly sensitivity and the impact of the approach on system resources.…”

“…In previous works [12,13], we draw on knowledge from the human and social sciences, particularly emotional processes, to design an agent architecture that improves the resilience of cyber-physical systems. In this architecture, we have integrated processes for detecting abnormal situations.…”