Abstract
For supporting the design of self-adaptive computing systems, the PSCEL language offers a principled approach that relies on declarative definitions of adaptation and authorisation policies enforced at runtime. Policies permit managing system components by regulating their interactions and by dynamically introducing new actions to accomplish task-oriented goals. However, the runtime evaluation of policies and their effects on system components make the prediction of system behaviour challenging. In this paper, we introduce the construction of a flow graph that statically points out the policy evaluations that can take place at runtime and exploit it to analyse the effects of policy evaluations on the progress of system components.
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Notes
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We use n to denote a generic name and n to denote the name of a syntactic element.
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Structured names are composed by a category name, i.e. one among \({\textsf {action}}\), \({\textsf {subject}}\) and \({\textsf {object}}\), and a name \({\textsf {n}}\). For example, \({\textsf {action}}/{\textsf {id}}\) refers to the name of the action generating the request, while \({\textsf {subject}}/{\textsf {label}}\) refers to the value of the interface feature \({\textsf {label}}\) of the component subject of the action.
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This splitting can always be done by appropriately applying standard boolean laws because each relational operator takes at most one variable as argument.
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The name \( sr1 \) of the component where the policy \(\varPi _S\) is assumed to be in force is that referred to by the variable \(\mathsf {this}\) occurring in the definition of rule \({\textsf {S1}}\).
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E.g., rule S2 of policy \(\varPi _S\) checks the feature \({\textsf {load}}\). Since S2 only generates paths of length one, possible updates of \({\textsf {load}}\) cannot interleave with policy evaluations.
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Margheri, A., Nielson, H.R., Nielson, F., Pugliese, R. (2016). Towards Static Analysis of Policy-Based Self-adaptive Computing Systems. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Foundational Techniques. ISoLA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47166-2_39
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