CSE4020

Specifying non-sequential and real-time systems

(IT)

Not offered in 2001

6 points + 4 hours per week + Second semester + Caulfield + Prohibition: SFT4020

Synopsis: Basic issues and characteristics of non-traditional systems: concurrent, distributed, parallel, reactive, real-time and trusted systems. Some approaches to specifying these systems: statecharts, Petri nets, process calculi and temporal logic. Use of model-based specification. Relations between the various approaches. Proving properties of non-sequential and real-time systems. Case studies in specifying non-sequential systems.

Assessment: Assignments: 100%