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Protective Wrapper Development: A Case Study

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We have recently proposed a general approach to engineering protective wrappers as a means of detecting errors or unwanted behaviour in systems employing an OTS (Off-The-Shelf) item, and launching appropriate recovery actions. This paper presents results of a case study in protective wrapper development, using a Simulink model of a steam boiler system together with an OTS PID (Proportional, Integral and Derivative) controller. The protective wrappers are developed for the model of the system in such a way that they allow detection and tolerance of typical errors caused by unavailability of signals, violations of constraints, and oscillations.

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  1. School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Tom Anderson, Mei Feng, Steve Riddle & Alexander Romanovsky

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Anderson, T., Feng, M., Riddle, S., Romanovsky, A. (2003). Protective Wrapper Development: A Case Study. In: Erdogmus, H., Weng, T. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36465-X_1

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