A Formal Language for Modelling and Verifying Systems-of-Systems Software Architectures

Abstract

Systems of systems (SoS) are a set of independent systems that are constantly evolving. These systems cooperate in order to achieve a common goal, known as an SoS mission. It is difficult to capture their behaviours while operating in a hierarchical, cooperative and evolutionary structure. Thus, a software architecture based approach is defined in order to model and analyze these systems, reducing their increasing complexity. It ought to describe an SoS on both structural and behavioural levels. In this paper, ArchSoS, an ADL dedicated to describe SoS software architectures, is extended with a syntax-driven formal description, based on Bigraphic Reactive Systems (BRS). SoS defined via ArchSoS have both a graphical and a textual view. For this syntax to be executable, and to verify SoS evolutions, an operational semantic for ArchSoS is defined. It is implemented in Maude language to permit ArchSoS behavioural simulations, and its formal analysis is done through Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The proposed approach is illustrated through a Crisis Response SoS as a case study.

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“…The authors of [8] [9] have introduced a formal approach based on Architectural Description Language, that inspires its syntax notation from Bigraphs to model hierarchical structures of CSs and their roles. They have focused on modeling the potential cooperation between CSs by offering a syntax-based description that manages a set of constrained events and roles links affecting the global mission of an SoS.…”