%0 Journal Article
%J Sci. Comput. Program.
%D 2016
%T A method for rigorous design of reconfigurable systems
%A Alexandre Madeira
%A Renato Neves
%A Luis Soares Barbosa
%A Manuel A. Martins
%I Elsevier
%P 50–76
%R 10.1016/j.scico.2016.05.001
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2016.05.001
%V 132
%X <p>Reconfigurability, understood as the ability of a system to behave differently in different modes of operation and commute between them along its lifetime, is a cross-cutting concern in modern Software Engineering. This paper introduces a specification method for reconfigurable software based on a global transition structure to capture the system's reconfiguration space, and a local specification of each operation mode in whatever logic (equational, first-order, partial, fuzzy, probabilistic, etc.) is found expressive enough for handling its requirements. In the method these two levels are not only made explicit and juxtaposed, but formally interrelated. The key to achieve such a goal is a systematic process of hybridisation of logics through which the relationship between the local and global levels of a specification becomes internalised in the logic itself.</p>
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