Software Engineering Techniques for the Development of Systems of Systems

Călinescu, Radu; Kwiatkowska, Marta

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12566-9_4

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Service oriented architecture (SOA) is widely considered a paradigm that can fit well with SoS requirements [11], [32]. SOA is a paradigm for conceiving distributed applications by leveraging on the loosely coupled interactions among services.…”

Section: Research Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Cooperative Approach for Continuous Innovation of Mobility Information Services

Giuli

Paganelli

Cianchi³

2013

IEEE Systems Journal

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Mobility information services (MIS), associated with intelligent transport systems (ITS), are expected to provide valuable contributions toward sustainable and smart mobility. MIS inherit from ITS the characteristic of being a collaborative system of systems (SoS) where no centralized management can actually be enforced and where heterogeneous types of independent actors are involved. Therefore, innovation in MIS cannot be conceived, represented, and consequently promoted merely as a matter of advancements in specific technological fields. In this paper, we propose a sociotechnical framework for promoting continuous innovation in MIS. Focus is made on a cooperative approach, which leverages SoS principles, to foster service and product innovation in the mobility information domain on a regional scale. We describe how this approach has been put into practice by architecting an open working environment. This is a sociotechnical environment made by: 1) a cooperative network of stakeholders (e.g., regional and national public administrations, enterprises, and research bodies) and 2) an architectural framework, which is the reference technological baseline enabling the rapid configuration, deployment, and integration of different technological capabilities. The latter is also made to support demonstration and validation activities of applied research results. Finally, we discuss obtained results, as well as future research directions and exploitation activities.Index Terms-Cooperative systems, intelligent transport systems (ITS), mobility information services (MIS), service oriented architecture, sociotechnical systems, system of systems (SoS), web services.

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Section: Research Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Cooperative Approach for Continuous Innovation of Mobility Information Services

Giuli

Paganelli

Cianchi³

2013

IEEE Systems Journal

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“…However, software has become a ubiquitous element in SoS as constituents embed software and become smarter. Hence, the interest in development of software for SoS has grown up, raising a new area of investigation termed Software Engineering for SoS (SESoS) [4,6,16]. Among these techniques, patterns are examples of popular software engineering techniques that can bring productivity and quality for SESoS.…”

Section: Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Externalizing patterns for simulations in software engineering of systems-of-systems

Neto

Manzano

Rohling³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Systems-of-Systems (SoS) often support critical domains. They must be trustworthy, i.e., they must keep their operation in progress, being not subject to failures, as they can cause potential damages and hazards to human integrity. Simulations are a recurrent approach in SoS development, as they can anticipate potential failures, consequently increasing the level of trustworthiness and quality exhibited by a SoS. Nevertheless, simulation is still software and demands engineering. Moreover, many simulation formalisms are not trivial of specifying, sometimes tangling software an hardware details to program an executable simulation. Thus, the aim of this paper is contributing for software engineering of SoS by externalizing two patterns for the conception of SoS simulations. We evaluated our patterns by applying them in a case study in two different domains. For both, patterns were successfully applied during automatic generation of functional code, supporting the execution of SoS simulations and prediction of SoS behavior at design-time.

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“…The evolution challenge in this aspect arises when some applications change their interfaces. Some useful approaches and technologies for handling both mentioned challenges are standardization, loose and indirect coupling design, having a commonly agreed-upon infrastructure and set of technologies, using middleware approach, serviceoriented architecture, model-driven architecture and global information grid that are suggested by different authors for tackling evolution challenges in SoS/ULSS area [5] [25][31] [32]. Furthermore, open source and agile methodologies are two other areas can be helpful since they are not centralized development approaches [31] [32].…”

Section: B Architecture (Design) Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Grid software applications as an ultra-large-scale system: Challenges for evolution

Anvaari

Cruzes

Conradi

2012

2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)

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Abstract-Software applications play a major role to support the smartness in Smart Grid. Such applications are in a neverending state of flux due to rapidly changing expectations from the users and stakeholders. Hence, evolution is an important matter for development of Smart Grid software applications and the challenging factors of software evolution in Smart Grid should be identified. This position paper presents a discussion on the Smart Grid software applications as an ultra-large-scale system, focusing on the possible challenges that need to be addressed for an effective and efficient evolution of the area.Index Terms-Smart Grid, software applications, software evolution, systems of systems, ultra-large-scale system.

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Software Engineering Techniques for the Development of Systems of Systems

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

Toward a Cooperative Approach for Continuous Innovation of Mobility Information Services

Toward a Cooperative Approach for Continuous Innovation of Mobility Information Services

Externalizing patterns for simulations in software engineering of systems-of-systems

Smart Grid software applications as an ultra-large-scale system: Challenges for evolution

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