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As the complexity of modern large systems or System of Systems increases, it becomes challenging to capture their whole dimension and to identify their key aspects. Architecture models provide a legible description of the system, and help describing its properties in a representation shared and understood by most stakeholders. In our case, we intend to evaluate system architectures through model execution. Since evolutionary design and configuration are key challenges of such systems, variability needs a way to be expressed in architecture models. Variability can be solved either at design time (derive a system from the family), or at runtime (reconfigure the system). This paper presents our experience in integrating variability aspects in a system architecture description Domain-Specific Language.
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Ludwig, M., Farcet, N., Babau, JP., Champeau, J. (2011). Integrating Design and Runtime Variability Support into a System ADL. In: France, R.B., Kuester, J.M., Bordbar, B., Paige, R.F. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6698. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21470-7_19
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