Abstract

Cyber-physical systems are the most relevant mainstream in the contemporary automation of industry, smart cities, and ubiquitous systems. Although most of its components and their behaviors are software-based elements, there are no suitable approaches for specifying, designing, testing and delivering cyber physical systems under a software engineering point of view, i.e. having a systematic, disciplined and measurable approach to its development. This paper describes the suitability of agent oriented software engineering for confronting the development of cyber-physical systems. The contribution is focused on two labels, first, we show a set of requirements for an cyber-physical engineering methodology, that were gathered by means of a literature review, and, second, we present a match between agent-oriented principles and the collected requirements. To illustrate some examples we use Tropos, one of the most disseminated agent-oriented methodologies.