  ASTRI ("Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana") is a
Flagship Project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and
Research, and led by INAF, the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. Main
goals of the ASTRI project are the realization of an end-to-end prototype of a
Small Size Telescope (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in a
dual-mirror configuration (SST-2M) and, subsequently, of a mini-array composed
of a few SST-2M telescopes to be placed at the final CTA Southern Site. Here we
present the main features of the Mini-Array Software System (MASS) that has a
central role in the success of the ASTRI Project and will also serve as a
prototype for the CTA software system. The MASS will provide a set of tools to
prepare an observing proposal, to perform the observations specified therein
(monitoring and controlling all the hardware components of each telescope), to
analyze the acquired data online and to store/retrieve all the data products
to/from the archive.}
