Real-Time: Theory in Practice: REX Workshop, Mook, The Netherlands, June 3-7, 1991. Proceedings [Paperback]

In the past decade, the formal theory of specification,verfication and development of real-time programs has grownfrom work of a few specialized groups to a real bandwagon .Many eminent research groups have shifted their interests inthis direction. Consequently, research in real-time is nowentering established research areas in formal methods, suchas process algebra, temporal logic, and model checking.This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop dedicatedto the theory of real-time with the purpose of stepping backand viewing the results achieved as well as considering thedirections of ongoing research. The volume gives arepresentative picture of what is going on in the fieldworldwide, presented by eminent, active researchers. Thematerial in the volume was prepared by the authors after theworkshop took place and reflects the results of the workshopdiscussions.An old-fashioned recipe for real time.- Verifying automata specifications of probabilistic real-time systems.- The theory of timed automata.- Logics and models of real time: A survey.- The state operator in real time process algebra.- Timed process algebras with urgent interactions and a unique powerful binary operator.- Time in state based formal description techniques for distributed systems.- Real-time and the Mu-Calculus (preliminary report).- Implementing reactive programs on circuits a hardware implementation of LUSTRE.- Semantics and completeness of Duration Calculus.- Timed transition systems.- Compositional verification of real-time systems using extended Hoare triples.- Semantics of reactive systems in abstract time.- Problems, promises and performance: some questions for real-time system specification.- Abstraction in real time process algebra.- (Real) time: A philosophical perspective.- Specification and analysis of resource-bound real-time systems.- Forward and backward simulations for timing-based systems.- Prom timed to hybrid systems.- Coping lC'