NDLI: Constrained expressions: Adding analysis capabilities to design methods for concurrent software systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Avrunin, G.S. Dillon, L.K. Wileden, J.C. Riddle, W.E.
Copyright Year	1976
Abstract	An approach to the design of concurrent software systems based on the constrained expression formalism is described. This formalism provides a rigorous conceptual model for the semantics of concurrent computations, thereby supporting analysis of important system properties as part of the design process. This approach allows designers to use standard specification and design languages, rather than forcing them to deal with the formal model explicitly or directly. As a result, the approach attains the benefits of formal rigor without the associated pain of unnatural concepts or notations for its users. The conceptual model of concurrency underlying the constrained expression formalism treats the collection of possible behaviors of a concurrent system as a set of sequences of events. The constrained expression formalism provides a useful closed-form description of these sequences. Algorithms were developed for translating designs expressed in a wide variety of notations into these constrained expression descriptions. A number of powerful analysis techniques that can be applied to these descriptions have also been developed.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	278
Ending Page	292
Page Count	15
File Size	3806122
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00985589
Volume Number	SE-12
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1986-02-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Design methodology Software systems Semantics Concurrent computing Educational institutions Filtering Computer languages event-based Ada-based design notation analysis techniques concurrent software systems constrained expressions design method
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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