Paper Info
Title
Towards formalising installation and reconfiguration tasks of AADL architecture
Abstract
Software applications are becoming more and more distributed rendering their deployment which consists essentially of the installation and dynamic reconfiguration activities crucial and important phase in software development lifecycle. Although, several approaches for software deployment exist in the literature, most of them deal with specific technologies and offer limited models. In this paper, we focus on the formalisation of the most important deployment tasks of software systems using bigraphical reactive systems BRS. We aim to give a complete semantic framework for AADL specifications, including the installation of software application on execution platform and its dynamic reconfiguration. AADL offers necessary tools to define both software and execution platform characteristics in the same description. For this purpose, our model allows the specification of software architecture configuration by a suitable pair of bigraphs, the first one models software components and their interconnections, and the second one models the execution platform. Thus, software entities installation on hardware ones is achieved by composing the two designed bigraphs. Besides, reconfiguration activity is formalised in terms of BRS reactions rules.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1504/IJCNDS.2013.057720
IJCNDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,execution platform characteristic,reconfiguration task,dynamic reconfiguration activity,software development lifecycle,software architecture configuration,software application,execution platform,aadl architecture,dynamic reconfiguration,models software component,software entities installation,architecture description language,adl,architecture analysis and design language,distributed systems,bigraphs
Software deployment,Software design description,Computer science,Software architecture description,Software system,Resource-oriented architecture,Component-based software engineering,Software construction,Software development,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadira Benlahrache110.71
Faiza Belala24620.89