TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hooman,Jozef
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Specification and Compositional Verification of Real-Time Systems
T2  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
SN  - 9783540466024
AV  - QA76.9.L63 
U1  - 005.1015113 23
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - Logic design
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Logics and Meanings of Programs
KW  - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
KW  - Software Engineering
N1  - Compositionality -- Compositionality and real-time -- Adding program variables -- Shared processors -- Concluding remarks
N2  - The research described in this monograph concerns the formal specification and compositional verification of real-time systems. A real-time programminglanguage is considered in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous message passing along unidirectional channels. To specifiy functional and timing properties of programs, two formalisms are investigated: one using a real-time version of temporal logic, called Metric Temporal Logic, and another which is basedon extended Hoare triples. Metric Temporal Logic provides a concise notationto express timing properties and to axiomatize the programming language, whereas Hoare-style formulae are especially convenient for the verification of sequential constructs. For both approaches a compositional proof system has been formulated to verify that a program satisfies a specification. To deduce timing properties of programs, first maximal parallelism is assumed, modeling the situation in which each process has itsown processor. Next, this model is generalized to multiprogramming where several processes may share a processor and scheduling is based on priorities. The proof systems are shown to be sound and relatively complete with respect to a denotational semantics of the programming language. The theory is illustrated by an example of a watchdog timer
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54947-1
ER  -