Architecture Synthesis for Optimized and Flexible Production
The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) anticipates frequent synthesis and optimization of different architectural design decisions (ADDs) – such as the deployment of software components to hardware components, service composition, production planning, and topology (plant layout) synthesis. The frequent manual search for valid and optimal architectural designs is a time- and cognition-consuming task for an engineer. This asks for automating the process of deriving different ADDs. Although automating different ADDs is intensely investigated in other domains, the current research works 1) require higher engineering effort for specifying architecture optimization problems; 2) conduct (only) sequential ADDs, leading to lower solution quality (i.e., sub-optimal production); 3) neglect reconfigurability and reliability of architectures, and, thereby, offer no solution for production downtime; 4) neglect event-based execution semantics while considering timing-related issues. Therefore, I propose a Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)-based framework for joint synthesis and optimization of multi-dimensional ADDs using industrial automation domain models (e.g., plant topology, product recipes, stations capabilities, etc.). This research should bring the following benefits for the practitioners and researchers: 1) reduction of engineering effort for conducting different ADDs; 2) improvement of different quality attributes (e.g., production performance, reconfigurability, reliability, etc.); 3) guideline/support for a practitioner in choosing ADDs workflow to improve given quality attributes.
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08:00 15mDoctoral symposium paper | Assessing the Quality of Computational Notebooks for a Frictionless Transition from Exploration to Production DS - Doctoral Symposium Luigi Quaranta University of Bari, Italy Pre-print | ||
08:15 15mDoctoral symposium paper | Architecture Synthesis for Optimized and Flexible Production DS - Doctoral Symposium Tarik Terzimehic fortiss GmbH | ||
08:30 15mDoctoral symposium paper | A Framework to Support Software Developers in Implementing Privacy Features DS - Doctoral Symposium Anthony Mazeli University of Bristol | ||
08:45 15mDoctoral symposium paper | Completeness of Composite Refactorings for Smell Removal DS - Doctoral Symposium Ana Carla Bibiano PUC-Rio | ||
09:00 15mDoctoral symposium paper | Improving Automated Crash Reproduction DS - Doctoral Symposium Philip Oliver Victoria University of Wellington | ||
09:15 15mDoctoral symposium paper | Topology of the Documentation Landscape DS - Doctoral Symposium Marco Raglianti Software Institute - USI, Lugano |