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Increasing Dependability in Safety Critical CPSs Using Reflective Statecharts

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Dependability is crucial in Safety Critical Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). In spite of the research carried out in recent years, implementation and certification of such systems remain costly and time consuming. In this paper, a framework for Statecharts based SW component development is presented. This framework called CRESC (C++ REflective StateCharts), in addition to assisting in transforming a Statechart model to code, uses reflection to make the model available at Run Time. Thus, the SW components can be monitored at Run Time in terms of model elements. Our framework helps the developer separate monitoring from functionality. Any monitoring strategy needed to increase dependability can be added independently from the functional part. The framework was implemented in C++ because this programming language, together with the Statechart formalism constitute widely used choices for the Safety Critical CPS domain.

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The project has been developed by the Embedded System Group of MGEP and supported by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government under the projects Ikerketa Taldeak (Grupo de Sistemas Embebidos) and LANA II ELKARTEK and by the European H2020 research and innovation programme, ECSEL Joint Undertaking, and National Funding Authorities from 19 involved countries under the project Productive 4.0 with grant agreement no. GAP-737459 - 999978918.

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    Miren Illarramendi, Leire Etxeberria, Xabier Elkorobarrutia & Goiuria Sagardui

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Illarramendi, M., Etxeberria, L., Elkorobarrutia, X., Sagardui, G. (2017). Increasing Dependability in Safety Critical CPSs Using Reflective Statecharts. In: Tonetta, S., Schoitsch, E., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security . SAFECOMP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66284-8_11

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