This book presents state-of-the-art research results in the area of formal methods for real-time and fault-tolerant systems. The papers consider problems and solutions in safety-critical system design and examine how wellthe use of formal techniques for design, analysis and verification serves in relating theory to practical realities. The book contains papers on real-time and fault-tolerance issues. Formal logic, process algebra, and action/event models are applied: - to specify and model qualitative and quantitative real-time and fault-tolerant behavior, - to analyze timeliness requirements and consequences of faulthypotheses, - to verify protocols and program code, - to formulate formal frameworks for development of real-time and fault-tolerant systems, - to formulate semantics of languages. The integration and cross-fertilization of real-time and fault-tolerance issues have brought newinsights in recent years, and these are presented in this book.
Author(s): Asis Goswami, Michael Bell, Mathai Joseph (auth.), Jan Vytopil (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 571
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 628
Tags: Logics and Meanings of Programs; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statistics, general; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computation by Abstract Devices; Control Structures and Microprogramming
ISL: An interval logic for the specification of real-time programs....Pages 1-20
Duration specifications for shared processors....Pages 21-32
A compositional semantics for fault-tolerant real-time systems....Pages 33-51
Modelling real-time behavior with an interval time calculus....Pages 53-71
Multicycles and RTL logic satisfiability....Pages 73-86
Voluntary preemption: A tool in the design of hard real-time systems....Pages 87-106
Observing task preemption in Ada 9X....Pages 107-129
Real-time scheduling by queue automata....Pages 131-147
Broadcast communication for real-time processes....Pages 149-169
Analysis of timeliness requirements in safety-critical systems....Pages 171-192
Verification of a reliable net protocol....Pages 193-215
Mechanical verification of a generalized protocol for Byzantine fault tolerant clock synchronization....Pages 217-236
Formal specification and verification of a fault-masking and transient-recovery model for digital flight-control systems....Pages 237-257
On fault-tolerant symbolic computations....Pages 259-269
Temporal logic applied to reliability modelling of fault-tolerant systems....Pages 271-289
Specifying asynchronous transfer of control....Pages 291-306
Protocol design by layered decomposition....Pages 307-326
Scheduling in Real-Time Models....Pages 327-339
A temporal approach to requirements specification of real-time systems....Pages 341-361
RLucid, a general real-time dataflow language....Pages 363-374
A mechanized theory for the verification of real-time program code using higher order logic....Pages 375-392
Specification and verification of real-time behaviour using Z and RTL....Pages 393-409
TAM: A formal framework for the development of distributed real-time systems....Pages 411-428
An attempt to confront asynchronous reality to synchronous modelization in the ESTEREL language....Pages 429-450
The real-time behaviour of asynchronously communicating processes....Pages 451-472
Asynchronous communication in real space process algebra....Pages 473-492
Translating timed process algebra into prioritized process algebra....Pages 493-506
Operational semantics for timed observations....Pages 507-527
Real-timed concurrent refineable behaviours....Pages 529-545
Stepwise development of model-oriented real-time specifications from action/event models....Pages 547-570
Formal specification of fault tolerant real time systems using minimal 3-sorted modal logic....Pages 571-590
Timed and Hybrid Statecharts and their textual representation....Pages 591-620
