Signature Required - Making Simulink Data Flow and Interfaces Explicit

Marc Bender, Karen Laurin, Mark Lawford, Jeff Ong, Steven Postma, Vera Pantelic

2014

Abstract

Model comprehension and effective use and reuse of complex subsystems are problems currently encountered in the automotive industry. To address these problems we present a technique for extracting, presenting and making use of signatures for Simulink subsystems. The signature of a subsystem is defined to be a generalization of its interface, including the subsystem’s explicit ports, locally defined and inherited data stores, and scoped gotos/froms. We argue that the use of signatures has significant benefits for model comprehension and subsystem testing, and show how the incorporation of signatures into existing Simulink models is practical and useful by discussing various usage scenarios.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bender M., Laurin K., Lawford M., Ong J., Postma S. and Pantelic V. (2014). Signature Required - Making Simulink Data Flow and Interfaces Explicit . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 119-131. DOI: 10.5220/0004716001190131

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward14,
author={Marc Bender and Karen Laurin and Mark Lawford and Jeff Ong and Steven Postma and Vera Pantelic},
title={Signature Required - Making Simulink Data Flow and Interfaces Explicit},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={119-131},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004716001190131},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Signature Required - Making Simulink Data Flow and Interfaces Explicit
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Bender M.
AU - Laurin K.
AU - Lawford M.
AU - Ong J.
AU - Postma S.
AU - Pantelic V.
PY - 2014
SP - 119
EP - 131
DO - 10.5220/0004716001190131