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Time in state based formal description techniques for distributed systems

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Real-Time: Theory in Practice (REX 1991)

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Formal Approaches have been recognized to be of high importance for designing communication and cooperation protocols. They provide unambiguous descriptions, support validation analyses and allow assessment of the conformance of implementations against specifications. This paper presents how some mature and important techniques based on extensions of state machines are able to handle in an integrated way functional and time requirements. It is in particular shown how Time Petri net models can be combined together with the Estelle Formal Description Technique to define Estelle*, a very powerful language for describing highly dynamic and time dependent hierarchies of communicating architectures.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 7, avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077, Toulouse Cedex, France

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Courtiat, J., Diaz, M. (1992). Time in state based formal description techniques for distributed systems. In: de Bakker, J.W., Huizing, C., de Roever, W.P., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Real-Time: Theory in Practice. REX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031991

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