Compositional heterogeneous abstraction

  • Authors:
  • Akshay Rajhans;Bruce H. Krogh

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Hybrid systems: computation and control
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In model-based development, abstraction provides insight and tractability. Different formalisms are often used at different levels of abstraction to represent the variety of concerns that need to be addressed when designing complex cyber-physical systems. In this paper, we consider the problem of establishing abstraction across heterogeneous formalisms in a compositional manner. We use the framework of behavioral semantics to elucidate the general conditions that must be satisfied to assure that the composition of abstractions for individual components is an abstraction for the composition of the components. The theoretical concepts are illustrated using an example of a cooperative intersection collision avoidance system (CICAS).