Design-Space Exploration through Constraint-Based Model-Transformation

  • Authors:
  • Bernhard Schätz;Florian Hölzl;Torbjörn Lundkvist

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ECBS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 17th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many design steps during system development - like functional partitioning, refactoring of the architecture, or the mapping to the platform - can be understood as an exploration of the solution space. Each development step is characterized by design constraints, limiting the possible solution space. By using model transformations based on a declarative, relational approach, these constraints can be formalized as transformation rules guiding a mechanized exploration of possible design alternatives. The approach is demonstrated for the (semi-)automatic, incremental deployment of logical architectures to hardware platforms.