Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL): SEI Resources
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Software Engineering Institute
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The Architecture Analysis and Design Language, or AADL, is an SAE International standard for describing both the software architecture and the execution platform architectures of performance-critical, embedded, real-time systems. AADL is being used for the engineering of safety-critical systems.
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AADL/ACVIP User Day 2022
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By Software Engineering Institute
These presentations were given virtually at AADL/ACVIP User Day 2022.
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AADL/ACVIP User Days 2021
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By Software Engineering Institute
These presentations were given virtually at AADL/ACVIP User Days 2021.
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AADL User Day 2019
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By Software Engineering Institute
This collection includes all presentations delivered at AADL User Day 2019
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AADL Overview and Perspectives
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By Peter H. Feiler
Slides from a presentation delivered by Peter Feiler at AADL User Day 2019.
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Architecture Centric Virtual Integration Process (ACVIP): A Key Component of the DoD Digital Engineering Strategy
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By Alex Boydston (U.S. Army ADD/JMR), Peter H. Feiler, Steve Vestal (Honeywell Technology Center), Bruce Lewis (U.S. Army AMCOM)
ACVIP is a compositional, architecture-centric, model-based approach enabling virtual integration analysis in the early phases and throughout the lifecycle to detect and remove defects that currently are not found until …
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Architecture-Led Incremental System Assurance (ALISA) Tutorial
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By Software Engineering Institute
This collection consists of a 6-part ALISA tutorial, including a demo.
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The AADL Error Library
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By Sam Procter, Peter H. Feiler
Peter Feiler and Sam Procter present the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) EMV2 Error Library, which is an established taxonomy that draws on a broad range of previous work …
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AADL and OSATE: A Tool Kit to Support Model-Based Engineering
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By Software Engineering Institute
This brochure describes the Architecture Analysis & Design Language and the Open Source AADL Tool Environment, two tools that support model-based engineering.
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System Architecture Virtual Integration Nets Significant Savings
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By Software Engineering Institute
This SEI Bulletin, published May 16, 2018, highlights a blog post discussing an analysis of System Architecture Virtual Integration Nets Significant Savings.
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System Verification and Validation with Model-Based Engineering: The Architecture Analysis & Design Language
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By Software Engineering Institute
This brochure explains how the AADL enables early analysis and describes other benefits of using it to support system verification and validation.
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The Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL): An Introduction
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By Peter H. Feiler, David P. Gluch, John J. Hudak
This 2006 report provides an introduction to the AADL, a modeling language that supports early and repeated analyses of a system's architecture with respect to performance-critical properties.
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What's New With Version 2 of the AADL Standard?
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By Peter H. Feiler
In this podcast, Peter Feiler discusses the latest changes to the Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) standard.
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Model-Based Engineering with AADL: An Introduction to the SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language
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By Peter H. Feiler, David P. Gluch
Model-Based Engineering with AADL introduces an architecture-centric approach to discovering software systems problems earlier, when they cost less to solve.
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Training Course: Modeling System Architectures Using AADL
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By Software Engineering Institute
In the Modeling System Architectures Using the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) course, you will learn how to use tools for model-based engineering.
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AADL Fault Modeling and Analysis Within an ARP4761 Safety Assessment
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By Julien Delange, Peter H. Feiler, David P. Gluch, John J. Hudak
This report describes how the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) Error Model Annex supports the safety-assessment methods in SAE Standard ARP4761.
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An Implementation of the Behavior Annex in the AADL-Toolset Osate2
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By Gilles Lasnier (TELECOM ParisTech), Laurent Pautet (TELECOM ParisTech), Jerome Hugues, Lutz Wrage
This paper first appeared in the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems.
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Architecture Analysis with AADL
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By Julien Delange
This webinar introduces the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL), the architecture modeling language used to specify safety-critical systems. We show its use in the Open Source AADL Tool Environment …
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Architecture-Led Safety Analysis of the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Joint Common Architecture (JCA) Demonstration System
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By Peter H. Feiler
This report summarizes an architecture-led safety analysis of the aircraft-survivability situation-awareness system for the Joint Multi-Role vertical lift program.
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Coding with AADL
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By Julien Delange, Suzanne Miller
In this podcast, Julien Delange summarizes different perspectives on research related to code generation from software architecture models.
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Dependability Modeling with the Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL)
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By Peter H. Feiler, Ana Rugina
This 2007 report explains the capabilities of the Error Model Annex and provides guidance on the use of the AADL and the error model in modeling dependability aspects of embedded …
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Developing AADL Models for Control Systems: A Practitioner's Guide
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By John J. Hudak, Peter H. Feiler
This 2007 document helps practitioners use AADL and describes an approach for and the mechanics of constructing an architectural model that can be analyzed based on the AADL.
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Embedded Systems Architecture Analysis Using SAE AADL
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By Peter H. Feiler, David P. Gluch, John J. Hudak, Bruce Lewis (U.S. Army AMCOM)
This 2004 report discusses the role and benefits of using the AADL in the process of analyzing an existing avionics system.
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Flow Latency Analysis with the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL)
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By Peter H. Feiler, Jörgen Hansson (University of Skovde)
This 2007 report describes the ability of AADL to determine a lower bound for the worst-case end-to-end latency in a system.
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Industry Standard Notation for Architecture-Centric Model-Based Engineering
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By Peter H. Feiler
In this paper, Peter Feiler describes the AADL, an industry standard for modeling and analyzing the architecture of software-reliant systems.
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The Latest Developments in AADL
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By Peter H. Feiler, Julien Delange
Julien Delange and Peter Feiler discuss the latest developments with the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) standard.
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Potential System Integration Issues in the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Joint Common Architecture (JCA) Demonstration System
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By Peter H. Feiler, John J. Hudak
This report describes a method for capturing information from requirements documents in AADL to identify potential integration problems early in system development.
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Requirements and Architecture Specification of the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Joint Common Architecture (JCA) Demonstration System
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By Peter H. Feiler
This report describes a method for capturing information from requirements documents in AADL and the draft Requirement Definition & Analysis Language Annex.
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The SAE Avionics Architecture Description Language (AADL) Standard: A Basis for Model-Based Architecture-Driven Embedded Systems Engineering
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By Peter H. Feiler, Steve Vestal (Honeywell Technology Center)
The AADL standard will include a UML profile useful for avionics, space, automotive, robotics and other real-time concurrent processing domains including safety critical applications.
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Secure Coding Analysis of an AADL Code Generator's Runtime System
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By David Keaton
This paper describes a secure coding analysis of the PolyORB-HI-C runtime system used by C language code output from the Ocarina AADL code generator.
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Integrating Safety and Security Engineering for Mission-Critical Systems (2019)
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By Sam Procter
This poster provides an update on research to make systems safer and more secure.
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System Architecture Virtual Integration: ROI on Early Discovery of Defects
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By Peter H. Feiler
Peter Feiler discusses the cost savings (26.1 percent) realized when using the System Architecture Virtual Integration approach on the development of software-reliant systems for aircraft.
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Integrated Safety and Security Engineering for Mission-Critical Systems
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By Sam Procter
This presentation describes progress in research to develop software and processes that use a system's architecture to support developer intuition and improve safety and security.
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How is Virtual System Integration Useful?
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch Sam Procter discuss "How is virtual system integration useful?" in this SEI SoundByte.
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What Would Convince DoD Program Managers to Use Model-Based System Engineering?
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch Sam Procter and Jeff Boleng answer the question, "What would convince DoD Program Managers to use model-based system engineering?"
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How Can Model-Based System Analysis Be More integrated with System Development?
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch Sam Procter answer, "How can model-based system analysis be more integrated with system development?"
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How Has the DARPA HACMS Project Used Virtual System Integration Technology?
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch Sam Procter answer, "How has the DARPA HACMS project used virtual system integration technology?"
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ROI Analysis of the System Architecture Virtual Integration Initiative
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By Jörgen Hansson (University of Skovde), Steve Helton (The Boeing Company), Peter H. Feiler
This report presents an analysis of the economic effects of the System Architecture Virtual Integration approach on the development of software-reliant systems for aircraft compared to existing development paradigms.
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Automated Assurance of Security Policy Enforcement (2017)
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By Peter H. Feiler, Sam Procter
Poster for a research project on safety-critical system security policy enforcement
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Improvements in Safety Analysis for Safety Critical Software Systems
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By Peter H. Feiler
Recent advances in virtual system integration through architecture modeling and analysis have led to improvements in safety analysis in several ways, which will be described in this presentation.
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Architecture-Led Safety Process
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By Peter H. Feiler, Julien Delange, David P. Gluch, John McGregor
Architecture-Led Safety Analysis (ALSA) is a safety analysis method that uses early architecture knowledge to supplement traditional safety analysis techniques to identify faults as early as possible.
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