| Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP Contributor(s): Davies, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521450551 ISBN-13: 9780521450553 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Data Processing - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
| Dewey: 004.33 |
| LCCN: 94102916 |
| Series: Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (1.10 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Computing systems are becoming highly complex, harder to understand, and therefore more prone to failure. Where such systems control aircraft for example, system failure could have disastrous consequences. It is important therefore that we are able to employ mathematical techniques to specify the behavior of critical systems. This thesis uses the theory of Communicating Sequential Processes to show how a real-time system (a system that maintains a continuous interaction with its environment) may be specified. Included is a case study in which a local area network protocol is described at two levels of abstraction, and a general method for structuring CSP descriptions of layered protocols is given. The research contained here represents the very latest work on the specification and verification of real-time systems. |