Designing Robust Software Systems through Parametric Markov Chain Synthesis

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F17%3APU126395" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/17:PU126395 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.16" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.16</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.16" target="_blank" >10.1109/ICSA.2017.16</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Designing Robust Software Systems through Parametric Markov Chain Synthesis

Original language description

We present a method for the synthesis of software system designs that satisfy strict quality requirements, are Pareto-optimal with respect to a set of quality optimisation criteria, and are robust to variations in the system parameters. To this end, we model the design space of the system under development as a parametric continuous-time Markov chain (pCTMC) with discrete and continuous parameters that correspond to alternative system architectures and to the ranges of possible values for configuration parameters, respectively. Given this pCTMC and required tolerance levels for the configuration parameters, our method produces a sensitivity-aware Pareto-optimal set of designs, which allows the modeller to inspect the ranges of quality attributes induced by these tolerances, thus enabling the effective selection of robust designs. Through application to two systems from different domains, we demonstrate the ability of our method to synthesise robust designs with a wide spectrum of useful tradeoffs between quality attributes and sensitivity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-17538S" target="_blank" >GA16-17538S: Relaxed equivalence checking for approximate computing</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference On Software Architecture

ISBN

978-1-5090-5729-0

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

131-140

Publisher name

IEEE Computer Society

Place of publication

New Jersey

Event location

Gothenburg

Event date

Mar 13, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000403402100017