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Specifying Temporal Behaviour in Software Architectures for Groupware Systems

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Interactive Systems Design, Specification, and Verification (DSV-IS 2000)

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This paper presents an example of how software architectures can encode temporal properties as well as the traditional structural ones. In the context of expressing concurrency control in groupware systems, the paper shows how a specification of temporal properties of the semi-replicated groupware architecture can be refined to three different implementations, each with different performance tradeoffs. This refinement approach helps in understanding the temporal properties of groupware applications, and increases confidence in the correctness of their implementation.

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  1. University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Timothy N. Wright

  2. Queen’s University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    T. C. Nicholas Graham

  3. Telenor Research and Development, P.O. Box 83, N-2007, Kjeller, Norway

    Tore Urnes

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  2. Istituto CNUCE, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via V. Alfieri 1, 56010, Ghezzano-Pisa, Italia

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Wright, T.N., Nicholas Graham, T.C., Urnes, T. (2001). Specifying Temporal Behaviour in Software Architectures for Groupware Systems. In: Palanque, P., Paternò, F. (eds) Interactive Systems Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44675-3_1

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