TY - GEN
T1 - A self-scheduling model for NASA swarm-based exploration missions using ASSL
AU - Vassev, Emil
AU - Hinchey, Mike
AU - Paquet, Joey
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This article presents our research towards a self-scheduling mechanism for the NASA swarm-based exploration missions. By its virtue, ANTS (Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm) is considered to be an autonomic system with autonomic behavior that constitutes a self-scheduling mechanism, thus allowing task distribution on the fly with no human intervention. The goal of this work is to investigate a possible self-scheduling mechanism for ANTS, in accordance with the system and environmental conditions. In this paper, a formal task-scheduling approach is presented, and the ANTS self-scheduling behavior is modeled and specified with ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language), where the group and individual tasks are structured in the fashion of TAFT (Time Aware Fault-Tolerant). TAFT is a recently devised approach that applies tolerance to timing violations.
AB - This article presents our research towards a self-scheduling mechanism for the NASA swarm-based exploration missions. By its virtue, ANTS (Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm) is considered to be an autonomic system with autonomic behavior that constitutes a self-scheduling mechanism, thus allowing task distribution on the fly with no human intervention. The goal of this work is to investigate a possible self-scheduling mechanism for ANTS, in accordance with the system and environmental conditions. In this paper, a formal task-scheduling approach is presented, and the ANTS self-scheduling behavior is modeled and specified with ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language), where the group and individual tasks are structured in the fashion of TAFT (Time Aware Fault-Tolerant). TAFT is a recently devised approach that applies tolerance to timing violations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50149086994&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EASe.2008.14
DO - 10.1109/EASe.2008.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50149086994
SN - 0769531407
SN - 9780769531403
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, EASe 2008
SP - 54
EP - 64
BT - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, EASe 2008
T2 - 5th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, EASe 2008
Y2 - 31 March 2008 through 4 April 2008
ER -