Maria Pittou ; George Rahonis - Architectures in parametric component-based systems: Qualitative and quantitative modelling

lmcs:6894 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, December 30, 2021, Volume 17, Issue 4 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-17(4:26)2021
Architectures in parametric component-based systems: Qualitative and quantitative modellingArticle

Authors: Maria Pittou ; George Rahonis

    One of the key aspects in component-based design is specifying the software architecture that characterizes the topology and the permissible interactions of the components of a system. To achieve well-founded design there is need to address both the qualitative and non-functional aspects of architectures. In this paper we study the qualitative and quantitative formal modelling of architectures applied on parametric component-based systems, that consist of an unknown number of instances of each component. Specifically, we introduce an extended propositional interaction logic and investigate its first-order level which serves as a formal language for the interactions of parametric systems. Our logics achieve to encode the execution order of interactions, which is a main feature in several important architectures, as well as to model recursive interactions. Moreover, we prove the decidability of equivalence, satisfiability, and validity of first-order extended interaction logic formulas, and provide several examples of formulas describing well-known architectures. We show the robustness of our theory by effectively extending our results for parametric weighted architectures. For this, we study the weighted counterparts of our logics over a commutative semiring, and we apply them for modelling the quantitative aspects of concrete architectures. Finally, we prove that the equivalence problem of weighted first-order extended interaction logic formulas is decidable in a large class of semirings, namely the class (of subsemirings) of skew fields.


    Volume: Volume 17, Issue 4
    Published on: December 30, 2021
    Accepted on: October 11, 2021
    Submitted on: November 10, 2020
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,68Q45

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