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Ensuring Consistency of Dynamic Reconfiguration of Component Based Systems

Authors:
Hamza Zerguine
Nabila Salmi
Malika Ioualalen

Keywords: Component-Based Systems; dynamic reconfiguration; formalization; consistency.

Abstract:
begin{abstract} The introduction of dynamic reconfiguration properties in a system can affect its performance and quality of service offered to users. Thus, performance prediction of component-based systems after reconfiguration is important to help software engineers to analyze their applications at the moment of reconfiguration and take decision to keep or discard the analyzed reconfiguration, so that performance problems are avoided. In this case, the design and verification of functional and non-functional properties before and after reconfiguration become a challenge. In particular, when a applying a reconfiguration on a system, the consistency of the new resulting architecture should be checked. To this aim, we describe, in this paper, a generic reconfiguration analysis approach which allows to check the reconfiguration consistency of a component-based architecture, starting from the architectural description of a component-based system. A case study of a system reconfiguration illustrates the effectiveness of our approach.

Pages: 517 to 522

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-304-9

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013