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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MegaMaRt2 (MegaModelling at Runtime - scalable model-based framework for continuous development and runtime validation of complex systems.)

Teaser

Summary

European industry faces stiff competition on the global arena. Electronic Components and Systems become more and more
complex, thus calling for modern engineering practices to be applied in order to better tackle both productivity and quality.
Model-based technologies promise significant productivity gains, which have already been proven in several studies and
applications. However, these technologies still need more enhancements to scale up for real-life industrial projects and to
provide more benefits in different contexts.

The ultimate objective of improving productivity, while reducing costs and ensuring quality in development, integration and
maintenance, can be achieved by using techniques integrating seamlessly design time and runtime aspects. Industrial scale
system models, which are usually multi-disciplinary, multi-teams and serving to several product lines have to be be exploited
at runtime, e.g. by advanced tracing and monitoring, thus boosting the overall quality of the final system and providing
lessons-learnt for future product generations. MegaM@Rt brings model-based engineering to the next level in order to help
European industry reducing development and maintenance costs while reinforcing both productivity and quality.

To achieve that, MegaM@Rt will create a framework incorporating methods and tools for continuous development and
runtime validation to significantly improve productivity, quality and predictability of large and complex industrial systems.
MegaM@Rt addresses the scalability challenges with advanced megamodelling and traceability approaches, while runtime
aspects will be tackled via so-called â€œmodels@runtimeâ€, online testing and execution traces analysis.
MegaM@Rt brings together a strong international consortium involving experts from France, Spain, Italy and Finland. The
partners cover the whole value chain from research organizations to tool providers, including 9 end-users with large
industrial case studies for results validation.

Work performed

We have conducted the requirements elicitation and analysis for all the case studies to be fully supported by the MegaM@Rt2 Framework. Different types of requirements have been proposed following state-of-the-art software and systems architecture methods: conceptual (use case) requirements, framework requirements and toolset (technology) requirements. Gap analysis has been carried out in order to dice which requirements (features) are really needed and at which release of the Framework. These requirements have mapped to the definition of the baseline architecture of the toolsets brought by the partners, a preliminary high-level vision of the MegaM@Rt2 Framework. A first version of the Framework architecture roadmap has been proposed. This roadmap will prioritize, synchronize and guide the development work of the different toolsets integrating the Framework.
The tools and technology providers in the project have commenced the work on the proposes architecture initial and intermediate versions of the framework have been released to case study providers for evaluation. During the evaluation of the framework, case study providers also measured predefined key performance indicators against the baseline. The results of the evaluation and the measurements have been provided back to tool and technology providers for improving and developing further the framework.

Final results

The project will create a framework incorporating methods and tools for continuous system engineering and validation leveraging the advantages in scalable model-based methods to provide benefits in significantly improved productivity,
quality and predictability of large and complex industrial systems. The combining of different methods and tool sets will produce important feedback from run time to design time level that will improve the design. Preserved information from design time will improve the traceability and quality of the end product. The Management and Traceability tool set will address the scalability issues and the feedback loop of the model-based engineering methods.

The proposed roadmap will prioritize, synchronize and guide the development work of the different toolsets integrating the Framework.

The project has an indirect impact on society through accelerating the development and use of CPS scenarios, in transport and healthcare, where the impact is visible, and in other fields, notably energy and telecommunications where success is invisible to the consumer, but failures are particularly acute (that is to say the consumer benefit is in less outages or more reliable, cheaper or sustainable energy provision).