A method for rigorous design of reconfigurable systems

• Autor(a) principal: Madeira, Alexandre Leite Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Neves, Renato Jorge Araújo, Barbosa, L. S., Martins, Manuel A.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/43308
• topic: Software specification; Reconfigurable system; Hybrid logic; Reconfigurable systems; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática; Science & Technology

Reconfigurability, understood as the ability of a system to behave differently in different modes of operation and commute between them along its lifetime, is a cross-cutting concern in modern Software Engineering. This paper introduces a specification method for reconfigurable software based on a global transition structure to capture the system's reconfiguration space, and a local specification of each operation mode in whatever logic (equational, first-order, partial, fuzzy, probabilistic, etc.) is found expressive enough for handling its requirements. In the method these two levels are not only made explicit and juxtaposed, but formally interrelated. The key to achieve such a goal is a systematic process of hybridisation of logics through which the relationship between the local and global levels of a specification becomes internalised in the logic itself.