DesignBIP: A Design Studio for Modeling and Generating Systems with BIP
This work addresses a usability problem for engineers and researchers working with BIP frameworks, offering incremental improvements in tooling and collaboration.
The paper tackles the challenge of specifying Behavior-Interaction-Priority (BIP) models, which are used for correct-by-design systems like robot controllers, by introducing DesignBIP, a web-based design studio that facilitates modeling through a graphical language and provides tools such as editors and code generators.
The Behavior-Interaction-Priority (BIP) framework, rooted in rigorous semantics, allows the construction of systems that are correct-by-design. BIP has been effectively used for the construction and analysis of large systems such as robot controllers and satellite on-board software. Nevertheless, the specification of BIP models is done in a purely textual manner without any code editor support. To facilitate the specification of BIP models, we present DesignBIP, a web-based, collaborative, version-controlled design studio. To promote model scaling and reusability of BIP models, we use a graphical language for modeling parameterized BIP models with rigorous semantics. We present the various services provided by the design studio, including model editors, code editors, consistency checking mechanisms, code generators, and integration with the JavaBIP tool-set.