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In this article we present the executable specification language IPTES Meta-IV based on the formal specification language VDM-SL. The language has been fitted to work in an SA/RT framework and the article presents how it supports the specification of the data transformation part of SA/RT. Furthermore we present some of the advanced constructs of the language seen as an executable specification language in its own right. Finally we present how an IPTES Meta-IV interpreter is used in combination with a high-level timed Petri net executor to execute SA/RT models.
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Elmstrøm, R., Lassen, P.B. & Andersen, M. An executable subset of VDM-SL in an SA/RT framework. Real-Time Syst 5, 197–211 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01088588
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