A polynomial dynamic system approach to software design for attractivity requirement

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-Yun Wang;Wenhui Zhang;Yong-Chao Li;Kai-Yuan Cai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100083, China;LCS, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China;Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100083, China;Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100083, China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Because of the widespread increasing application of Web services and autonomic computing, self-adaptive software is an area gaining increasing importance. Control theory provides a theoretical foundation for self-adaptive software. In this paper, we propose the use of the supervisory control theory of discrete event dynamic systems (DEDS) to provide a rigorous foundation for designing software for reactive systems. This paper focuses in particular on design of software with an attractivity requirement. It studies this problem using the polynomial dynamic system (PDS) model of DEDS. A necessary and sufficient condition for software existence and two algorithms for such software design are presented.