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SLNET: A Redistributable Corpus of 3rd-party Simulink Models

Software Engineering 2022-04-01 v1

Abstract

MATLAB/Simulink is widely used for model-based design. Engineers create Simulink models and compile them to embedded code, often to control safety-critical cyber-physical systems in automotive, aerospace, and healthcare applications. Despite Simulink's importance, there are few large-scale empirical Simulink studies, perhaps because there is no large readily available corpus of third-party open-source Simulink models. To enable empirical Simulink studies, this paper introduces SLNET, the largest corpus of freely available third-party Simulink models. SLNET has several advantages over earlier collections. Specifically, SLNET is 8 times larger than the largest previous corpus of Simulink models, includes fine-grained metadata, is constructed automatically, is self-contained, and allows redistribution. SLNET is available under permissive open-source licenses and contains all of its collection and analysis tools.

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@article{arxiv.2203.17112,
  title  = {SLNET: A Redistributable Corpus of 3rd-party Simulink Models},
  author = {Sohil Lal Shrestha and Shafiul Azam Chowdhury and Christoph Csallner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.17112},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Published in Mining Software Repositories 2022 - Data and Tool Showcase Track

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