
Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP
Jim Davies(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 20. May 1993
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-521-45055-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book was first published in 1993. 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 behaviour or safety critical systems. This thesis uses the theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to show how a real-lime system 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 14 structuring CSP descriptions of layered protocols is given.
Reviews / Votes
"...definitely a large step forward. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the formalization of real-time processes." Martin Rem, Computing ReviewsMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45055-3 (9780521450553)
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Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP
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Prof.JimDaviesisProfessorofSoftwareEngineeringandthedirectorofthe Software Engineering Programme in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Kellogg College. His research interests include the development of automatic generation of systems from re-usable models of structure and functionality, and he is the Principal Investigator on CancerGrid, a consortium to develop open standards for clinical cancer informatics.
Content
1. The language of CSP; 2. The timed failure model; 3. Recursive processes; 4. Specification; 5. Proof; 6. Structuring specification; 7. Case study; 8. Broadcast information; 9. Discussion.