SEDOS: designing open distributed systems

Author

Diaz, Michel ; Vissers, Chris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA

Volume

6

Issue

6

fYear

1989

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The aim of the ESPRIT SEDOS (software environment for the design of open systems) project is to further develop Estelle, the extended state-transition language, and LOTOS, the language for temporal ordering specifications, to describe services and protocols for distributed architectures and to demonstrate their effectiveness as concretely as possible by deriving simulators and other support tools. The Estelle language is based on extended state machines that communicate through infinite FIFO links. The LOTOS language is based on a temporal ordering of events and rendezvous.<>

Keywords

distributed processing; open systems; programming environments; protocols; specification languages; ESPRIT; Estelle; LOTOS; SEDOS; distributed architectures; extended state-transition language; infinite FIFO links; open distributed systems; protocols; services; software environment; temporal ordering specifications; Calculus; Computer architecture; Design methodology; Electrical capacitance tomography; Open systems; Petri nets; Protocols; Software tools; Standards development; User-generated content;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.41647

Filename

41647