Robustification of Behavioral Designs against Environmental Deviations
Modern software systems are deployed in a highly dynamic, uncertain environment. Ideally, a system that is \emph{robust} should be capable of establishing its most critical requirements even in the presence of possible \emph{deviations} in the environment. We propose a technique called \emph{behavioral robustification}, which involves systematically and rigorously improving the robustness of a design against potential deviations. Given behavioral models of a system and its environment, along with a set of user-specified deviations, our robustification method produces a redesign that is capable of satisfying a desired property even when the environment exhibits those deviations. In particular, we describe how the robustification problem can be formulated as a \emph{multi-objective optimization} problem, where the goal is to restrict the deviating environment from causing a violation of a desired property, while maximizing the amount of existing functionality and minimizing the cost of changes to the original design. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on case studies involving the robustness of an electronic voting machine and safety-critical interfaces.
Wed 17 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
13:45 - 15:15 | Software architectures and designShowcase / Technical Track / SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training / NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results at Meeting Room 102 Chair(s): Davide Taibi Tampere University | ||
13:45 15mTalk | Robustification of Behavioral Designs against Environmental Deviations Technical Track Changjian Zhang Carnegie Mellon University, Tarang Saluja Swarthmore College, Rômulo Meira-Góes Carnegie Mellon University, Matthew Bolton University of Virginia, David Garlan Carnegie Mellon University, Eunsuk Kang Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
14:00 15mTalk | A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers Technical Track Jenny T. Liang Carnegie Mellon University, Maryam Arab George Mason University, Minhyuk Ko Virginia Tech, Amy Ko University of Washington, Thomas LaToza George Mason University Pre-print | ||
14:15 15mTalk | Designing for Real People: Teaching Agility through User-Centric Service Design SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Robert Chatley Imperial College London, Tony Field Imperial College London, Mark Wheelhouse Imperial College London, Carolyn Runcie Royal College of Art, Nick de Leon Royal College of Art, Clive Grinyer Royal College of Art Pre-print | ||
14:30 15mTalk | A Decision Model for Choosing Patterns in Blockchain-Based Applications Showcase Xiwei (Sherry) Xu CSIRO’s Data61, H M N Dilum Bandara Data61, CSIRO, Qinghua Lu CSIRO’s Data61, Ingo Weber TU Munich & Fraunhofer, Munich, Len Bass Carnegie Mellon University, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61 | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Architectural Design Decisions for Machine Learning Deployment Showcase | ||
15:00 7mTalk | Handling Communication via APIs for Microservices NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results | ||
15:07 7mTalk | Open Design Case Study - A Crowdsourcing Effort to Curate Software Design Case Studies SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Chun Yong Chong Monash University Malaysia, Eunsuk Kang Carnegie Mellon University, Mary Shaw Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print |