GUARDS Project - PDCC Activity Output, Report GUARDS/D3A4/AO/6001 C, Mar 18 1997.

Analytical Modelling and Evaluation of the GUARDS instances: example for Space Applications 

A. Bondavalli*, I. Mura**, M. Nelli***

* CNUCE Istituto del CNR, Via S. Maria 36, 56126 Pisa, Italy
   a.bondavalli@cnuce.cnr.it

** Dept. Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via Diotisalvi 2, Pisa, Italy
    mura@iet.unipi.it

*** PDCC - Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Piazza A. D'Ancona, 1 - 56127 PISA, Italy
       M.Nelli@guest.cnuce.cnr.it

Abstract

This report describes the modelling and evaluation of a GUARDS instance for space applications: the Rosetta mission provided by Matra Marconi Space. By using the hierarchical methodology identified by PDCC [8] , we focused on the analysis of the higher levels of the hierarchical modelling architecture. We identify the more relevant features for the validation task of the Rosetta mission and we provide some indications about the construction and solutions of the models. We have applied the general rules of our methodology for a preliminary modelling and evaluation of Rosetta. This have provided some feed back on our approach and has contributed to the identification of the GUARDS methodology described in [5] . A more refined modelling and evaluation will be carried out (up to the required detail) in the fu-ture to account for the issues arising from the detailed definition of the space application

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