Formal semantics of behavior specifications in the architecture analysis and design language standard

Abstract

In system design, an architecture specification or model serves, among other purposes, as a repository to share knowledge about the system being designed. Such a repository enables automatic generation of analytical models for different aspects relevant to system design (timing, reliability, security, etc.). The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is a standard proposed by SAE to express architecture specifications and share knowledge between the different stakeholders about the system being designed. To support unambiguous reasoning, formal verification, high-fidelity simulation of architecture specifications in a modelbased AADL design workflow, we have defined a formal semantics for the behavior specification of the AADL, the presentation of this semantics is the aim of this paper.