A Design Studio for Architecture-based Design with BIP

The Behavior-Interaction-Priority (BIP) framework, rooted in rigorous semantics, allows modeling heterogeneous component-based systems. BIP is supported by a textual modeling language, as well as a tool-set including run-time platforms and verification tools. We present a web-based design studio that allows specifying BIP behavior and interaction models in a purely graphical way and generating the equivalent textual specifications. To facilitate scaling and reusability of BIP models, we have extended architecture diagrams, a graphical language for modeling architecture styles, to define parameterized BIP models. We present the various services provided by the design studio, including model repositories, design guidance mechanisms, code generators, and integration with the BIP tool-set.