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2016

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Tuning energy consumption strategies in the railway domain: A model-based approach

Basile D., Di Giandomenico F., Gnesi S.

Model-based analysis C.4 PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS C.3 SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING Green IT Dependable Computing

Cautious usage of energy resources is gaining great attention nowadays, both from environmental and economical point of view. Therefore, studies devoted to analyze and predict energy consumption in a variety of application sectors are becoming increasingly important, especially in combination with other non-functional properties, such as reliability, safety and availability. This paper focuses on energy consumption strategies in the railway sector, addressing in particular rail road switches through which trains are guided from one track to another. Given the criticality of their task, the temperature of these devices needs to be kept above certain levels to assure their correct functioning. By applying a stochastic model-based approach, we analyse a family of energy consumption strategies based on thresholds to trigger the activation/deactivation of energy supply. The goal is to offer an assessment framework through which appropriate tuning of threshold-based energy supply solutions can be achieved, so to select the most appropriate one, resulting in a good compromise between energy consumption and reliability level.

Source: Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Discussion, Dissemination, Applications. 7th International Symposium, pp. 315–330, Corfu, Greece, 10-14 October 2016

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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:362671,
	title = {Tuning energy consumption strategies in the railway domain: A model-based approach},
	author = {Basile D. and Di Giandomenico F. and Gnesi S.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-47169-3_23},
	booktitle = {Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Discussion, Dissemination, Applications. 7th International Symposium, pp. 315–330, Corfu, Greece, 10-14 October 2016},
	year = {2016}
}