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Performing Safety Analyses with AADL and AltaRica

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Model-Based Safety and Assessment (IMBSA 2017)

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AADL and AltaRica languages can be used to support the safety assessments of system architectures. These languages were defined with different concerns and this paper aims at presenting their principles and how they can be related. A translator from AADL to AltaRica is proposed and its prototype is applied to a simplified flight control system of a UAV. The resulting AltaRica model has been analyzed with the AltaRica safety tools and the experimental results are discussed.

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    At http://github.com/osate/aadl2altarica.

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    At http://aadl.info/aadl/osate/experimental.

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This material is based upon work funded and supported by the Department of Defense under Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0003 with Carnegie Mellon University for the operation of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center. [Distribution Statement A] This material has been approved for public release and unlimited distribution. Please see Copyright notice for non-US Government use and distribution. DM-0004294.

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Brunel, J. et al. (2017). Performing Safety Analyses with AADL and AltaRica. In: Bozzano, M., Papadopoulos, Y. (eds) Model-Based Safety and Assessment. IMBSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10437. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64119-5_5

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