Accession Number:

ADA399793

Title:

Packaging Predictable Assembly with Prediction-Enabled Component Technology

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST

Personal Author(s):

• Hissam, Scott A.
• Moreno, Gabriel A.
• Stafford, Judith
• LWallnau, Kurt C.

Report Date:

2001-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

69.0

Abstract:

This report describes the use of prediction-enabled component technology PECT as a means of packaging predictable assembly as a deployable product. A PECT results from integrating a component technology with one or more analysis technologies. Analysis technologies allow analysis and prediction of assembly-level properties prior to component assembly, and, presumably, prior to component acquisition. Analysis technologies also identify required component properties and their certifiable descriptions. This report describes the major structures of a PECT. It then discusses the means of validating the predictive powers of a PECT so that consumers may obtain measurably bounded trust in design-time predictions. Last, it demonstrates the above concepts in a simple but illustrative model problem predicting average end-to-end latency of a soft real time application built from off-the-shelf software components.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• *PREDICTIONS
• DEPLOYMENT
• ACQUISITION
• OFF THE SHELF EQUIPMENT
• PACKAGING
• ASSEMBLY
• CONSUMERS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE