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mosca is an experimental language to extend the Vienna Development Method specification language VDM-SL to be applicable in the area of developing distributed, parallel and real-time systems. As is generally known, plain VDM is not adequate for these application areas since it lacks facilities to specify multiple threads of control and it does not allow the use of time within specifications. mosca is designed to overcome these restrictions.
The paper reports on the development of a mechanical transformation of mosca specifications into executable Ada programs. The paper highlights the transformation of mosca types, the implementation of pattern matching, the realisation of mosca agents through Ada tasks and the realisation of time.
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Ottens, A., Toetenel, H. (1992). Simulation of Mosca specifications in Ada. In: van Katwijk, J. (eds) Ada: Moving Towards 2000. Ada-Europe 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55585-4_16
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