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Towards a domain specific language for engineering collective adaptive systems
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0416-1787
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.
2017 (English)In: Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017, p. 19-26Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Heterogeneous agents that cooperate to accomplish collective tasks constitute Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS). Engineering a CAS not only involves the definition of the individual agents, but also their roles in achieving a collective task and adaptation strategies to counteract to environmental changes. Current solutions for specifying CAS typically tackle the problem at a low level of abstraction (e.g., writing XML files), making this task time-consuming and error-prone. Moreover, such a low level of abstraction hinders the understandability of the specification. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) proposes to reduce the complexity of development by adopting models as first class artifacts in the process. In this respect, this work proposes a MDE approach to enhance CAS specification. In particular, we introduce a domain-specific language (DSL) made-up of three main views: one devoted to adaptive systems design; one addressing ensembles definition; and one tackling the collective adaptation. These three separate aspects are woven seamlessly by the DSL to constitute a complete CAS design. While the different views allow us to exploit separation-of-concerns to reduce complexity and focus on a specific aspect of the system, facing CAS specification at a higher-level of abstraction permits to use concepts closer to the experts of the involved domains. Moreover, the precise definition of modeling concepts through corresponding meta-models enables correctness-by-construction of the system specification. 

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017. p. 19-26
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-37451DOI: 10.1109/FAS-W.2017.115ISI: 000426936100004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85035193056ISBN: 9781509065585 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-37451DiVA, id: diva2:1166323
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2nd IEEE International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems, FAS*W 2017; University of ArizonaTucson; United States; 18 September 2017 through 22 September 2017;
Available from: 2017-12-14 Created: 2017-12-14 Last updated: 2018-03-29Bibliographically approved

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