<p>Embedded systems are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives. As techonology progresses, these systems become more and more complex. Designers handle this increasing complexity by reusing existing components (Intellectual Property blocks). At the same time, the systems must still fulfill strict requirements on reliability and correctness.</p><p>This thesis proposes a formal verification methodology which smoothly integrates with component-based system-level design using a divide and conquer approach. The methodology assumes that the system consists of several reusable components. Each of these components are already formally verified by their designers and are considered correct given that the environment satisfies certain properties imposed by the component. What remains to be verified is the glue logic inserted between the components. Each such glue logic is verified one at a time using model checking techniques.</p><p>The verification methodology as well as the underlying theoretical framework and algorithms are presented in the thesis.</p><p>Experimental results have shown the efficiency of the proposed methodology and demonstrated that it is feasible to apply it on real-life examples.</p> / Report code: LiU-Tek-Lic-2003:57.

The survivability concerns the service continuity when the components of a system are damaged. This concept is especially useful in the emergency management of the system, as often emergencies involve accidents or incident disasters which more or less damage the system. The overall objective of this thesis study is to develop a quantitative management approach to the emergency management of a wireless cellular telecommunication system in light of its service continuity in emergency situations namely the survivability of the system. A particular wireless cellular telecommunication system, WCDMA, is taken as an example to ground this research.<p>The thesis proposes an ontology-based paradigm for service management such that the management system contains three models: (1) the work domain model, (2) the dynamic model, and (3) the reconfiguration model. A powerful work domain modeling tool called Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) is employed for developing the work domain model of the WCDMA system. Petri-Net theory, as well as its formalization, is applied to develop the dynamic model of the WCDMA system. A concept in engineering design called the general and specific function concept is applied to develop a new approach to system reconfiguration for the high survivability of the system. These models are implemented along with a user-interface which can be used by emergency management personnel. A demonstration of the effectiveness of this study approach is included.<p>There are a couple of contributions with this thesis study. First, the proposed approach can be added to contemporary telecommunication management systems. Second, the Petri Net model of the WCDMA system is more comprehensive than any dynamic model of the telecommunication systems in literature. Furthermore, this model can be extended to any other telecommunication system. Third, the proposed system reconfiguration approach, based on the general and specific function concept, offers a unique way for the survivability of any service provider system.<p>In conclusion, the ontology-based paradigm for a service system management provides a total solution to service continuity as well as its emergency management. This paradigm makes the complex mathematical modeling of the system transparent to the manager or managerial personnel and provides a feasible scenario of the human-in-the-loop management.

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The survivability concerns the service continuity when the components of a system are damaged. This concept is especially useful in the emergency management of the system, as often emergencies involve accidents or incident disasters which more or less damage the system. The overall objective of this thesis study is to develop a quantitative management approach to the emergency management of a wireless cellular telecommunication system in light of its service continuity in emergency situations namely the survivability of the system. A particular wireless cellular telecommunication system, WCDMA, is taken as an example to ground this research.<p>The thesis proposes an ontology-based paradigm for service management such that the management system contains three models: (1) the work domain model, (2) the dynamic model, and (3) the reconfiguration model. A powerful work domain modeling tool called Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) is employed for developing the work domain model of the WCDMA system. Petri-Net theory, as well as its formalization, is applied to develop the dynamic model of the WCDMA system. A concept in engineering design called the general and specific function concept is applied to develop a new approach to system reconfiguration for the high survivability of the system. These models are implemented along with a user-interface which can be used by emergency management personnel. A demonstration of the effectiveness of this study approach is included.<p>There are a couple of contributions with this thesis study. First, the proposed approach can be added to contemporary telecommunication management systems. Second, the Petri Net model of the WCDMA system is more comprehensive than any dynamic model of the telecommunication systems in literature. Furthermore, this model can be extended to any other telecommunication system. Third, the proposed system reconfiguration approach, based on the general and specific function concept, offers a unique way for the survivability of any service provider system.<p>In conclusion, the ontology-based paradigm for a service system management provides a total solution to service continuity as well as its emergency management. This paradigm makes the complex mathematical modeling of the system transparent to the manager or managerial personnel and provides a feasible scenario of the human-in-the-loop management.

Making electronic business systems, products of information technologies or solving real time tasks more and more IT specialists their designing work connect to UML language. The usage of this language provides opportunities to arrange documentation more simply, allows to communicate different position employees more easily, guarantee IT systems compatibility with business needs and requirements. One of the diagrams types used is activity diagram, which could be used to describe business processes, firms or its unit, compose official, activity or users instructions, show systems behaviour. Any investigative, designed or management activity at some cases is connected to modelling. Commonly designing systems, where parallel events could take place or, if necessary, to give an opportunity gradually, taking in account the reality, show events or state proceeding with the help of Petri nets. It is both graphical and mathematical design method. Designing activity diagrams of IT systems UML editors are used. To research and show events proceeding Petri nets are used. So the problem area is to compose a design system, which could transfer the elements of activity diagrams into Petri nets and model the functionality of the project. The major purpose of this study paper is to compose UML language activity diagrams modelling system, examine the functionality and design opportunities of system’s activity diagrams into Petri nets.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-05-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:29:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 dezani_h_me_ilha.pdf: 383103 bytes, checksum: 4d2db649fe811e74784845f2d0b245b4 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Neste trabalho descreve-se um programa de geração automática de código para o microcontrolador 8051 da Intel, a partir de uma rede de Petri, com o objetivo de minimizar o tempo gasto na codificação do programa e automatizar completamente este processo de transformação. Definiu-se o uso da rede de Petri Lugar/Transição como modelo de entrada pois, mesmo tendo um modelo mais compacto, a rede de Petri Colorida, quando transformada em código Assembly é consideravelmente maior que o código Assembly gerado para a rede de Petri Lugar/Transição. Conclui-se que o código gerado pelo programa corresponde, exatamente, ao modelo da rede e pode ser executado pela arquitetura-alvo sem a necessidade de alterações no código. / This dissertation describes a program for the automatic generation of microcontroller code. The program takes a Petri net as input and outputs the corresponding assembly code for the Intel's 8051. The goal of this work is to speed up the coding process as well as to completely automate such a transformation. We use place/transition nets because even colored Petri nets resulting in quite compact models the assembly codes produced from them are much larger than those produced from place/transition nets. Also the code generated by the program described here exactly matches the net model, and can be directly executed on the target architecture without the need for further tuning.

Resumo: Neste trabalho apresentam-se quatro ferramentas de síntese digital, capazes de converter máquinas de estados finitos modeladas em rede de Petri para uma descrição VHDL correspondente à maquina modelada. As máquinas de estados finitos nos modelos de Mealy ou Moore são representadas em rede de Petri Lugar/Transição através de duas metodologias de modelagem desenvolvidas. Uma das metodologias modela apenas máquinas do tipo Mealy, enquanto que a outra modela máquinas de Mealy e Moore. As metodologias e o tipo de tradução da rede de Petri que se deseja obter são fatores essenciais para definir as ferramentas que serão utilizadas. Duas das ferramentas desenvolvidas traduzem o modelo da rede de Petri em uma tabela de transição de estados e as outras duas ferramentas traduzem o modelo da rede de Petri em uma descrição comportamental na linguagem VHDL. Dependendo da ferramenta utilizada é necessário integrar outras ferramentas de síntese, desenvolvidas em trabalhos anteriores, no processo de tradução da rede de Petri para VHDL. A aplicabilidade das ferramentas e metodologias desenvolvidas foi concluída através de simulações dos códigos VHDL obtidos. / Abstract: In this work we present four digital synthesis tools capable of converting finite state machines modeled in Petri nets into a corresponding VHDL description. Mealy or Moore finite state machine models are represented in Place/Transition Petri nets through two possible methodologies, developed during this work. With one of the methodologies only Mealy machines can be modeled, while the with other both Mealy and Moore type machines can be dealt with. The methodologies and the kind of Petri net translation one desires to obtain are essential factors to determine the tools to be used. Two among the tools we developed translate a Petri net description into a state transition table, while the other two translate the Petri net description into a VHDL behavioral one. Depending on which of them is used it is also necessary to use some other synthesis tools developed by members of our research group. The adequacy of the developed methodologies an tools to the synthesis process has been verified through the simulation of the VHDL codes generated by our tools. / Orientador: Alexandre César Rodrigues da Silva / Coorientador: Norian Marranghello / Banca: Aledir Silveira Pereira / Banca: Marius Strum / Mestre

Orientador: Norian Marranghello / Banca: Rogéria Cristiane Gratão de Souza / Banca: Carlos Magnus Carlson Filho / Resumo: Neste trabalho descreve-se um programa de geração automática de código para o microcontrolador 8051 da Intel, a partir de uma rede de Petri, com o objetivo de minimizar o tempo gasto na codificação do programa e automatizar completamente este processo de transformação. Definiu-se o uso da rede de Petri Lugar/Transição como modelo de entrada pois, mesmo tendo um modelo mais compacto, a rede de Petri Colorida, quando transformada em código Assembly é consideravelmente maior que o código Assembly gerado para a rede de Petri Lugar/Transição. Conclui-se que o código gerado pelo programa corresponde, exatamente, ao modelo da rede e pode ser executado pela arquitetura-alvo sem a necessidade de alterações no código. / Abstract: This dissertation describes a program for the automatic generation of microcontroller code. The program takes a Petri net as input and outputs the corresponding assembly code for the Intel's 8051. The goal of this work is to speed up the coding process as well as to completely automate such a transformation. We use place/transition nets because even colored Petri nets resulting in quite compact models the assembly codes produced from them are much larger than those produced from place/transition nets. Also the code generated by the program described here exactly matches the net model, and can be directly executed on the target architecture without the need for further tuning. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T15:52:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Nos últimos anos, a redução do consumo de energia das aplicações dos sistemas embarcados tem recebido uma grande atenção da comunidade científica, visto que, como o tempo de resposta e o baixo consumo de energia são requisitos conflitantes, esses estudos tornam-se altamente necessários. Nesse contexto, é proposta uma metodologia aplicada nas fases iniciais de projeto para dar suporte às decisões relativas ao consumo de energia e ao desempenho das aplicações desses dispositivos embarcados. Al´em disso, esse trabalho propõe modelos temporizados de eventos discretos que são avaliados através de uma metodologia de simulção estocástica com o objetivo de representar diferentes cenários dos sistemas com facilidade. Dessa forma, para cada cenário ´e preciso decidir o n´umero máximo de simulações e o tamanho de cada rodada da simulação, onde ambos os fatores podem impactar no desempenho para se obter tais estimativas. Essa metodologia considera também, um modelo intermediário que representa a descrição do comportamento do sistema e, é através desse modelo que cenários são analisados. Esse modelo intermediário ´e baseado em redes de Petri coloridas temporizadas que permitem não somente a anáise do software, mas também fornece suporte a um conjunto de métodos bem estabelecidos para verificações de propriedades. É nesse contexto que o software, ALUPAS, responsável por estimar o consumo de energia e o tempo de execução dos sistemas embarcados é apresentado. Por fim, um caso de estudo real, assim como tamb´em, exemplos customizados são apresentados com a finalidade de mostrar a aplicabilidade desse trabalho, onde usuários não especializados não precisam interagir diretamente com o formalismo de redes de Petri.