Formal Techniques in Real-time and Fault-Tolerant Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 571

Vytopil, J. (ed.)

ISBN 10: 3540550925 / ISBN 13: 9783540550921

Editore: Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991

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Titolo: Formal Techniques in Real-time and ...

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 1991

Legatura: Softcover

Condizione: New

Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto:

This book presents state-of-the-art research results in thearea of formal methods for real-time and fault-tolerantsystems. The papers consider problems and solutions insafety-critical system design and examine how wellthe useof formal techniques for design, analysis and verificationserves in relating theory to practical realities.The book contains papers on real-time and fault-toleranceissues. Formal logic, process algebra, and action/eventmodels are applied:- to specify and model qualitative and quantitativereal-time and fault-tolerant behavior,- to analyze timeliness requirements and consequences offaulthypotheses,- to verify protocols and program code,- to formulate formal frameworks for development ofreal-time and fault-tolerant systems,- to formulate semantics of languages.The integration and cross-fertilization of real-time andfault-tolerance issues have brought newinsights in recentyears, and these are presented in this book.

Contenuti:

ISL: An interval logic for the specification of real-time programs.- Duration specifications for shared processors.- A compositional semantics for fault-tolerant real-time systems.- Modelling real-time behavior with an interval time calculus.- Multicycles and RTL logic satisfiability.- Voluntary preemption: A tool in the design of hard real-time systems.- Observing task preemption in Ada 9X.- Real-time scheduling by queue automata.- Broadcast communication for real-time processes.- Analysis of timeliness requirements in safety-critical systems.- Verification of a reliable net protocol.- Mechanical verification of a generalized protocol for Byzantine fault tolerant clock synchronization.- Formal specification and verification of a fault-masking and transient-recovery model for digital flight-control systems.- On fault-tolerant symbolic computations.- Temporal logic applied to reliability modelling of fault-tolerant systems.- Specifying asynchronous transfer of control.- Protocol design by layered decomposition.- Scheduling in Real-Time Models.- A temporal approach to requirements specification of real-time systems.- RLucid, a general real-time dataflow language.- A mechanized theory for the verification of real-time program code using higher order logic.- Specification and verification of real-time behaviour using Z and RTL.- TAM: A formal framework for the development of distributed real-time systems.- An attempt to confront asynchronous reality to synchronous modelization in the ESTEREL language.- The real-time behaviour of asynchronously communicating processes.- Asynchronous communication in real space process algebra.- Translating timed process algebra into prioritized process algebra.- Operational semantics for timed observations.- Real-timed concurrent refineable behaviours.- Stepwise development of model-oriented real-time specifications from action/event models.- Formal specification of fault tolerant real time systems using minimal 3-sorted modal logic.- Timed and Hybrid Statecharts and their textual representation.