Synchronous Programming of Reactive Systems / Edition 1

by Nicolas Halbwachs

Overview

This book will attempt to give a first synthesis of recent works concerning reactive system design. The term "reactive system" has been introduced in order to at'oid the ambiguities often associated with by the term "real-time system," which, although best known and more suggestive, has been given so many different meanings that it is almost inevitably misunderstood. Industrial process control systems, transportation control and supervision systems, signal-processing systems, are examples of the systems we have in mind. Although these systems are more and more computerized, it is surprising to notice that the problem of time in computer science has been studied only recently by "pure" computer scientists. Until the early 1980s, time problems were regarded as the concern of performance evaluation, or of some (unjustly scorned) "industrial computer engineering," or, at best, of operating systems. A second surprising fact, in contrast, is the growth of research concerning timed systems during the last decade. The handling of time has suddenly become a fundamental goal for most models of concurrency. In particular, Robin Alilner 's pioneering works about synchronous process algebras gave rise to a school of thought adopting the following abstract point of view: As soon as one admits that a system can instantaneously react to events, i. e.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792393115
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/31/1992
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #215
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 The imperative language Esterel.- 3 Graphic formalisms: the language Argos.- 4 Declarative languages: Lustre and Signal.- 5 Static verifications.- 6 Sequential code generation.- 7 Distributed code generation.- 8 Circuit generation from synchronous programs.- 9 Lustre program verification: the tool Lesar.- 10 Using Auto for Esterel program verification.- 11 Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

‘ ... The material in the book is well-organized, the style is clear, concise and readable. This book can be recommended as serious, although enjoyable, reading for everybody who is interested in real-time, embedded systems (reactive systems). '
Engineering Applications Artificial Intelligence, 7:3 (1994)
'This book can be recommended as serious, although enjoyable, reading for everybody who is interested in real-time, embedded systems.' Eng. App. of Artificial Intelligence 7:3 1994

From the Publisher

Developed from the lecture notes for a 12-hour course, synthesizes the recent work in the design of industrial process control, transportation control and supervision, signal processing, and other reactive systems. Formalizes the time behavior of a system using a model that assumes the system acts instantaneously, and that the machine response is negligible in relation to the response of the environment. Also introduces four computer languages based on the model. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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