ASSL Specification and Code Generation of Self-Healing Behavior for NASA Swarm-Based Systems

The autonomic system specification language (ASSL) is a framework for formally specifying, validating and generating autonomic systems. This paper presents concrete results on the use of ASSL to specify a self-healing behavior model for NASA swarm-based exploration missions and to generate an application skeleton of the same. We present the specification and experiment with the generated code to demonstrate that ASSL generates operational code that is capable of self-management in respect of the specified self-healing model.