ArcheOpterix: An extendable tool for architecture optimization of AADL models

  • Authors:

  • Aldeida Aleti;Stefan Bjornander;Lars Grunske;Indika Meedeniya

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia;Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia;Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia;Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

  • Venue:
  • MOMPES '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Model-Based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

For embedded systems quality requirements are equally if not even more important than functional requirements. The foundation for the fulfillment of these quality requirements has to be set in the architecture design phase. However, finding a suitable architecture design is a difficult task for software and system architects. Some of the reasons for this are an ever-increasing complexity of today's systems, strict design constraints and conflicting quality requirements. To simplify the task, this paper presents an extendable Eclipse-based tool, called ArcheOpterix, which provides a framework to implement evaluation techniques and optimization heuristics for AADL specifications. Currently, evolutionary strategies have been implemented to identify optimized deployment architectures with respect to multiple quality objectives and design constraints. Experiments with a set of initial deployment architectures provide evidence that the tool can successfully find architecture specifications with better quality.