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Cost-sensitive precomputation of real-time-aware reconfiguration strategies based on stochastic priced timed games

Göttmann, Hendrik ; Caesar, Birte ; Beers, Lasse ; Lochau, Malte ; Schürr, Andy ; Fay, Alexander (2024)
Cost-sensitive precomputation of real-time-aware reconfiguration strategies based on stochastic priced timed games.
In: Software and Systems Modeling, 2024
doi: 10.1007/s10270-024-01195-9
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

In many recent application domains, software systems must repeatedly reconfigure themselves at runtime to satisfy changing contextual requirements. To decide which next configuration is presumably best suited is a very challenging task as it involves not only functional requirements but also non-functional properties (NFP). NFP include multiple, potentially contradicting, criteria like real-time constraints and cost measures like energy consumption. Effectiveness of context-aware reconfiguration decisions further depends on mostly uncertain future contexts which makes greedy one-step decision heuristics potentially misleading. Moreover, the computational runtime overhead for reconfiguration planning should not nullify the benefits. Nevertheless, entirely pre-planning reconfiguration decisions during design time is also not feasible due to missing knowledge about runtime contexts. In this article, we propose a model-based technique for precomputing context-aware reconfiguration decisions under partially uncertain real-time constraints and cost measures. We employ a game-theoretic approach based on stochastic priced timed game automata as reconfiguration model. This formal model allows us to automatically synthesize winning strategies for the first player (the system) which efficiently delivers presumably best-fitting reconfiguration decisions as reactions to moves of the second player (the context) at runtime. Our tool implementation copes with the high computational complexity of strategy synthesis by utilizing the statistical model checker Uppaal Stratego to approximate near-optimal solutions. We applied our tool to a real-world example consisting of a reconfigurable robot support system for the construction of aircraft fuselages. Our evaluation results show that Uppaal Stratego is indeed able to precompute effective reconfiguration strategies within a reasonable amount of time.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2024
Autor(en): Göttmann, Hendrik ; Caesar, Birte ; Beers, Lasse ; Lochau, Malte ; Schürr, Andy ; Fay, Alexander
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Cost-sensitive precomputation of real-time-aware reconfiguration strategies based on stochastic priced timed games
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 5 August 2024
Verlag: Springer
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Software and Systems Modeling
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 2024
Kollation: 31 Seiten
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-024-01195-9
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

In many recent application domains, software systems must repeatedly reconfigure themselves at runtime to satisfy changing contextual requirements. To decide which next configuration is presumably best suited is a very challenging task as it involves not only functional requirements but also non-functional properties (NFP). NFP include multiple, potentially contradicting, criteria like real-time constraints and cost measures like energy consumption. Effectiveness of context-aware reconfiguration decisions further depends on mostly uncertain future contexts which makes greedy one-step decision heuristics potentially misleading. Moreover, the computational runtime overhead for reconfiguration planning should not nullify the benefits. Nevertheless, entirely pre-planning reconfiguration decisions during design time is also not feasible due to missing knowledge about runtime contexts. In this article, we propose a model-based technique for precomputing context-aware reconfiguration decisions under partially uncertain real-time constraints and cost measures. We employ a game-theoretic approach based on stochastic priced timed game automata as reconfiguration model. This formal model allows us to automatically synthesize winning strategies for the first player (the system) which efficiently delivers presumably best-fitting reconfiguration decisions as reactions to moves of the second player (the context) at runtime. Our tool implementation copes with the high computational complexity of strategy synthesis by utilizing the statistical model checker Uppaal Stratego to approximate near-optimal solutions. We applied our tool to a real-world example consisting of a reconfigurable robot support system for the construction of aircraft fuselages. Our evaluation results show that Uppaal Stratego is indeed able to precompute effective reconfiguration strategies within a reasonable amount of time.

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