A method for rigorous design of reconfigurable systems

作者：Madeira Alexandre^*; Neves Renato; Barbosa Luis S; Martins Manuel A

来源：Science of Computer Programming, 2016, 132: 50-76.

DOI：10.1016/j.scico.2016.05.001

• Software specification
• Reconfigurable systems
• Hybrid logic

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.

• 出版日期2016-12-15