An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture
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Software Engineering Institute
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CMU/SEI-96-TR-006Abstract
Simplex is a software architecture for dependable and evolvable process-control systems developed by the Software Engineering Institute. Our project consisted of creating a formal specification of this architecture, and analyzing its safety and liveness properties. We developed a Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) model to describe the overall dynamic behavior of the Simplex architecture, which we verified using the Failure-Divergence Refinement (FDR) model checker. As a result, we discovered interesting things about the use of FDR that revealed subtle points in the Simplex architecture. We also developed a WRIGHT specification of this architecture to characterize precisely the connections between its components at the architectural level. The specification was based on the latest version of the CSP model.
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Rivera, J., Danylyszyn, A., Weinstock, C., Sha, L., & Gagliardi, M. (1996, March 1). An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-006). Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/an-architectural-description-of-the-simplex-architecture/.
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author={Rivera, Jose and Danylyszyn, Alejandro and Weinstock, Charles and Sha, Lui and Gagliardi, Michael},
title={An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture},
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year={1996},
number={CMU/SEI-96-TR-006},
howpublished={Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library},
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note={Accessed: 2024-Apr-19}
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Rivera, Jose, Alejandro Danylyszyn, Charles Weinstock, Lui Sha, and Michael Gagliardi. "An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture." (CMU/SEI-96-TR-006). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, March 1, 1996. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/an-architectural-description-of-the-simplex-architecture/.
J. Rivera, A. Danylyszyn, C. Weinstock, L. Sha, and M. Gagliardi, "An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-006, 1-Mar-1996 [Online]. Available: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/an-architectural-description-of-the-simplex-architecture/. [Accessed: 19-Apr-2024].
Rivera, Jose, Alejandro Danylyszyn, Charles Weinstock, Lui Sha, and Michael Gagliardi. "An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-006). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Mar. 1996. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/an-architectural-description-of-the-simplex-architecture/. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Rivera, Jose; Danylyszyn, Alejandro; Weinstock, Charles; Sha, Lui; & Gagliardi, Michael. An Architectural Description of the Simplex Architecture. CMU/SEI-96-TR-006. Software Engineering Institute. 1996. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/an-architectural-description-of-the-simplex-architecture/