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Designing Robust Software Systems through Parametric Markov Chain Synthesis

ČEŠKA, M. CALINESCU, R. GERASIMOU, S. KWIATKOWSKA, M. PAOLETTI, N.

Originální název

Designing Robust Software Systems through Parametric Markov Chain Synthesis

Typ

článek ve sborníku ve WoS nebo Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

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.

Klíčová slova

Computer science;Linear programming;Markov processes;Optimization;Probabilistic logic;Robustness;Software systems;multi-objective optimisation;probabilistic model synthesis;software performance and reliability engineering

Autoři

ČEŠKA, M.; CALINESCU, R.; GERASIMOU, S.; KWIATKOWSKA, M.; PAOLETTI, N.

Vydáno

13. 3. 2017

Nakladatel

IEEE Computer Society

Místo

New Jersey

ISBN

978-1-5090-5729-0

Kniha

Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference On Software Architecture

Strany od

131

Strany do

140

Strany počet

10

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT144418,
  author="Milan {Češka} and Radu {Calinescu} and Simos {Gerasimou} and Marta {Kwiatkowska} and Nicola {Paoletti}",
  title="Designing Robust Software Systems through Parametric Markov Chain Synthesis",
  booktitle="Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference On Software Architecture",
  year="2017",
  pages="131--140",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="New Jersey",
  doi="10.1109/ICSA.2017.16",
  isbn="978-1-5090-5729-0"
}