Proportional Reliability of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for the Application of Cyber Physical Production Systems

Abstract

Cyber Physical Production System (CPPS) is one of the most significant concepts of the Industry 4.0, which has attracted spread attention from both academic community and industry. It is widely accepted that the Industrial Internet of Things (I2oT) and advanced methodologies for manufacturing systems are essential factors to achieve CPPS. Among the methodologies, a class of agent-oriented methodologies is considered prevailing in the manufacturing scenarios. Thus, some promising methodologies are proposed based on agent-oriented architecture. However, most of these methodologies need to be further evaluated. This paper reviews the evolution of the software architecture and comes up with the requirements of the validation of these methodologies. According to the proposed requirements, the latest methodologies are analyzed and the future research roadmap is proposed.