Title :
A Timed Model of Circus with the Reactive Design Miracle
Author :
Wei, Kun ; Woodcock, Jim ; Burns, Alan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of York, York, UK
Abstract :
We propose a timed model of Circus which is a compact extension of original Circus. Apart from introducing time, this model uses UTP-style semantics to describe each process as a reactive design. One of significant contributions of our timed model is to extensively explore the reactive design miracle, the top element of a complete lattice with respect to the implication ordering. The employment of the miracle brings a number of brand-new features such as deadline and urgent events, which provide a more powerful and flexible expressiveness in system specifications.
Keywords :
formal specification; programming language semantics; Circus timed model; UTP-style semantics; implication ordering; reactive design miracle; system specification; Clocks; Computational modeling; Helium; Programming profession; Real time systems; Semantics; Circus; Miracle; Timed CSP; UTP;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8289-4
DOI :
10.1109/SEFM.2010.40