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Modern systems evolve in unpredictable environments and have to continuously adapt their behavior to changing conditions. The “DReAM” (Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture Modeling) framework, has been designed for modeling reconfigurable dynamic systems. It provides a rule-based language, inspired from Interaction Logic, expressive and easy to use, and encompassing all aspects of dynamicity including parametric multi-modal coordination with creation/deletion of components as well as mobility. Additionally, it allows the description of both endogenous/modular and exogenous/centralized coordination styles and sound transformations from one style to the other. The DReAM framework is implemented in the form of a Java API bundled with an execution engine. It allows to develop runnable systems combining the expressiveness of the rule-based notation together with the flexibility of this widespread programming language.
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Components \(B_j\) not “actively” involved in the interaction will participate with their \(idle_{}\) port s.t. \(s'_j = s_j\).
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For the sake of conciseness, from now on we will omit the conjunction operator on monomials.
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Notice that when writing e.g. c.s we are omitting the explicit reference to the component type b and using a shorter notation compared to the complete one, e.g. b.c.s.
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De Nicola, R., Maggi, A., Sifakis, J. (2018). DReAM: Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture Modeling. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Distributed Systems. ISoLA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03424-5_2
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