March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
17h 38m
English
Stamatis Karnouskos SAP, Karlsruhe, Germany
Industrial agents are considered a key enabler for industrial applications, thus sophisticated approaches have been developed for them over the past several years. However, it is noticeable that most of them focus on the provision of core functionalities relevant to the application, while other aspects, such as security and privacy, which are not immediately visible, are considered second-class priorities and are often neglected or realized only at a very basic level. With the emergence of cyber-physical systems, and especially their application in the industrial domain, the business landscape is changing, because they offer sophisticated capabilities ...