Producing prototypes from CO-OPN specifications

The techniques and the tools developed to produce prototypes from CO-OPN (concurrent object-oriented Petri net) specifications are described. CO-OPN is a specification language for the description of concurrent aspects and data-structure aspects of computer programs in an abstract way. The concurrent part of the formalism is described with Petri nets, while the data aspects are described with algebraic abstract data types. In CO-OPN, this association is structured by the object notion. For prototyping such a formalism, a fully operational semantics is required. The semantics is given for the simulation tools that have been developed. An editor and an environment for executing CO-OPN specifications have been developed. The specifications are prototyped using a translation of the specifications into Prolog