Interface Modeling for Quality and Resource Management

TL;DR

This paper introduces a flexible interface-modeling framework that captures hardware and software quality, resource usage, and functionality, enabling dynamic reconfiguration and multi-objective optimization for embedded and cyber-physical systems.

Contribution

It presents a domain-independent, partially-ordered set-based framework for modeling quality and resources in component systems, facilitating optimization and reconfiguration.

Findings

Framework supports dynamic system reconfiguration.

Enables multi-objective optimization of quality and resources.

Applicable to embedded and cyber-physical systems.

Abstract

We develop an interface-modeling framework for quality and resource management that captures configurable working points of hardware and software components in terms of functionality, resource usage and provision, and quality indicators such as performance and energy consumption. We base these aspects on partially-ordered sets to capture quality levels, budget sizes, and functional compatibility. This makes the framework widely applicable and domain independent (although we aim for embedded and cyber-physical systems). The framework paves the way for dynamic (re-)configuration and multi-objective optimization of component-based systems for quality- and resource-management purposes.