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UML and specialized profiles, such as MARTE, are established specification and modeling procedures in the system development process. While language-based system specification and resource modeling shortens the design cycle, the exploration of the design-space is time-consuming. Most expensive proves the generation of system models respectively the generation of architectural alternatives for subsequent exploration. This work contributes a method, that utilizes activity threads to reduce the effort, needed to build such a set. With this method, a group of system models, each representing one design alternative, can automatically be generated. Therefore, only one architecture model and one function model in combination with an activity thread is required. The proposed method is the first step towards automated comparison of the performance for design alternatives at an early stage in the development process.
This work has been supported within a subcontract between Infineon Technologies AG and the Universität der Bundeswehr München. This contract is part of the Project “Verteilte integrierte Systeme und Netzwerkarchitekturen für die Applikationsdomänen Automobil und Mobilkommunikation” (VISION), 01 M 3078.
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Liehr, A.W., Buchenrieder, K.J., Rolfs, H.S., Nageldinger, U. (2009). Generation of MARTE Allocation Models from Activity Threads. In: Radetzki, M. (eds) Languages for Embedded Systems and their Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9714-0_3
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