Application Independent Modeling and Simulation Environment for Systems with Self-aware and Self-expressive Capabilities

摘要

Self-awareness and Self-expression in computer systems promise a lot of abilities enabling us to deal with the problems and challenges caused by their continuously increasing complex and heterogeneous structures and requirements, and the unpredictability and changes in their deployment environment. For this reason, engineering self-awareness and self-expression in computing systems has become a major research field in the computer science. To fill the gap between research at the conceptional level and the construction of first proof-of-concept demonstrators, a novel modeling and simulation environment for self-aware and self-expressive systems has been implemented. The environment is the Transaction-Level-Modeling (TLM) description in SystemC of the reference architectural framework for self-aware and self-expression systems. Therefore, it enables to simulate any topology of self-aware and self-expressive systems and deployed applications. This paper presents the said environment along with the developed reference architectural framework on which it is based, as well as an example motivated in the avionic domain.