Formal Description Techniques: Proceedings of the IFIP TC/WG 6.1 Second International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols, FORTE '89, Vancouver, Canada, 5-8 December 1989 2nd

Selected research papers collected in this volume cover various theoretical and practical aspects of Formal Description Techniques (FDTs), e.g. LOTOS, Estelle, SDL, TTCN and ASN.1, for communications protocols. The main subject areas covered by the papers are: - Theoretical and practical aspects of analysing formal descriptions, including translation, implementation and test generation - Practical experience of using FDTs - Software tools to support the applications of FDTs - FDT language design issues and FDT extensions - Perspective on FDTs.
 
Selected research papers collected in this volume cover various theoretical and practical aspects of Formal Description Techniques (FDTs), e.g. LOTOS, Estelle, SDL, TTCN and ASN.1, for communications protocols. The main subject areas covered by the papers are: - Theoretical and practical aspects of analysing formal descriptions, including translation, implementation and test generation - Practical experience of using FDTs - Software tools to support the applications of FDTs - FDT language design issues and FDT extensions - Perspective on FDTs.