PRESTO: Predicting System-level Disruptions through Parametric Model Checking

Xinwei Fang; Radu Calinescu; Colin Paterson; Julie C. Wilson

doi:10.1145/3524844.3528059

PRESTO: Predicting System-level Disruptions through Parametric Model Checking

Xinwei Fang, Radu Calinescu, Colin Paterson, Julie C. Wilson

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Abstract

Self-adaptive systems are expected to mitigate disruptions by con-
tinually adjusting their configuration and behaviour. This mitiga-
tion is often reactive. Typically, environmental or internal changes
trigger a system response only after a violation of the system re-
quirements. Despite a broad agreement that prevention is better
than cure in self-adaptation, proactive adaptation methods are
underrepresented within the repertoire of solutions available to
the developers of self-adaptive systems. To address this gap, we
present a work-in-progress approach for the prediction of system-
level disruptions (PRESTO) through parametric model checking.
Intended for use in the analysis step of the MAPE-K (Monitor-
Analyse-Plan-Execute over a shared Knowledge) feedback control
loop of self-adaptive systems, PRESTO comprises two stages. First,
time-series analysis is applied to monitoring data in order to iden-
tify trends in the values of individual system and/or environment
parameters. Next, future non-functional requirement violations are
predicted by using parametric model checking, in order to establish
the potential impact of these trends on the reliability and perfor-
mance of the system. We illustrate the application of PRESTO in a
case study from the autonomous farming domain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SEAMS '22
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	91-97
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9305-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3524844.3528059
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion
ISSN (Print)	2574-1926

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Fang, X., Calinescu, R., Paterson, C., & Wilson, J. C. (2022). PRESTO: Predicting System-level Disruptions through Parametric Model Checking. In SEAMS '22: Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (pp. 91-97). (Proceedings (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524844.3528059

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Fang, X , Calinescu, R , Paterson, C & Wilson, JC 2022, PRESTO: Predicting System-level Disruptions through Parametric Model Checking. in SEAMS '22: Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. Proceedings (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ACM, pp. 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524844.3528059

PRESTO: Predicting System-level Disruptions through Parametric Model Checking. / Fang, Xinwei ; Calinescu, Radu ; Paterson, Colin et al.
SEAMS '22: Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. ACM, 2022. p. 91-97 (Proceedings (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion).

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