Real time logic (RTL) was introduced as a formalism for reasoning about the relative and absolute timing properties of computational tasks of discrete real-time systems. Extended real time logic (ERTL) is a formalism ...
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Real time logic (RTL) was introduced as a formalism for reasoning about the relative and absolute timing properties of computational tasks of discrete real-time systems. Extended real time logic (ERTL) is a formalism for the modelling and analysis of relative and absolute timing properties of hybrid systems (systems that combine continuous variables and discrete event dynamics). The extensions provided by ERTL enable the modelling of system behaviour ranging from activities of the physical entities that form part of the environment of a computing system, to the temporal ordering of the computational tasks of the computing system itself thus providing a formal notation that can be used in all stages of software development.
Summary form only given. Hybrid systems are systems which combine both continuous variable and discrete event dynamics. Their complexity has risen to the extent that traditional approaches which dealt separately with ...
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Summary form only given. Hybrid systems are systems which combine both continuous variable and discrete event dynamics. Their complexity has risen to the extent that traditional approaches which dealt separately with the continuous and discrete aspects of such systems have become obsolete. Instead of proposing a novel formal notation for the specification of controllers for hybrid systems we have developed extended real time Logic (ERTL) as a formal notation for the modelling and analysis of relative and absolute timing properties of hybrid systems. ERTL embeds the discrete system model of the real time logic (RTL) of Jahanian and Mok (1986, 1988) into continuous time, and adds the ability to reason about piecewise continuous functions using predicates over real valued variables. While RTL is able to formally describe the behaviour of computational entities in the time domain, ERTL also permits the formal description of the behaviour of physical entities in both value and time domains.
This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the comb...
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This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the combination of TLM analysis with Prony's method as well as with autoregressive moving average (ARMA) digital signal processing for electromagnetic field modelling. By combining these advanced computation techniques, typical electromagnetic field modelling of microwave structures by TLM analysis can be accelerated by a few orders of magnitude.
The purpose of this paper is to describe extensions to the B Method in order to facilitate the generation of provably correct SPARK Ada code. Two strategies are provided. Firstly, a process model for the B Method is s...
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The author takes an uncontentious view of quality as being 'fitness for purpose', more specifically, conformance to user requirements. Quality can be measured by number of reported nonconformances per hour of ...
The author takes an uncontentious view of quality as being 'fitness for purpose', more specifically, conformance to user requirements. Quality can be measured by number of reported nonconformances per hour of use (of course 'shelfware', that is, software that is never used, exhibits no failures). Quality in many installed engineeringsystems is likely to exhibit a 'bathtub' failure curve during its lifetime. Despite the apparent kinship with physical engineeringsystems, softwaresystems demand a different treatment because repairs to a software system alter its specification. Here, the author presents various efforts aimed at standardising the measurement of software quality.
Weakest preconditions are used to formulate the requirements for a 2-state memory cell and it is proved that the flip-flop device meets these requirements. This is an exercise in the use of the weakest preconditions w...
Weakest preconditions are used to formulate the requirements for a 2-state memory cell and it is proved that the flip-flop device meets these requirements. This is an exercise in the use of the weakest preconditions which is more realistic than the usual examples of non-looping arithmetic algorithms.
This paper provides a description of the programming language Pascal. It has been published to enable those without easy access to the official BSI ‘draft for comment’ to comment on the description.
This paper provides a description of the programming language Pascal. It has been published to enable those without easy access to the official BSI ‘draft for comment’ to comment on the description.
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EuroSPI conference, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2012.The 29 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. They are orga...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783642311994
ISBN:
(纸本)9783642311987
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th EuroSPI conference, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2012.
The 29 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. They are organized in topical sections on SPI and business factors; SPI lifecycle and models; SPI assessment and quality; SPI processes and standards; SPI in SMEs; SPI and implementation; creating environments supporting innovation and improvement; standards and experiences with the implementation of functional safety; business process management; SPI in SMEs - a project management perspective.
This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008. T...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783540879916
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(纸本)9783540879909
This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshops are conceptual modeling for life sciences applications (CMLSA 2008), evolution and change in data management (ECDM 2008), foundations and practices of UML (FP-UML 2008), modeling mobile applications and services (M2AS 2008), requirements, intentions and goals in conceptual modeling (RIGiM 2008), semantic and conceptual issues in geographic information systems (SeCoGIS 2008), and Web information systems modeling (WISM 2008).
Computational Intelligence is comparatively a new field but it has made a tremendous progress in virtually every discipline right from engineering, science, business, m- agement, aviation to healthcare. Computational ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783642144646
ISBN:
(纸本)9783642144639;9783642264924
Computational Intelligence is comparatively a new field but it has made a tremendous progress in virtually every discipline right from engineering, science, business, m- agement, aviation to healthcare. Computational intelligence already has a solid track-record of applications to healthcare, of which this book is a continuation. We would like to refer the reader to the excellent previous volumes in this series on computational intelligence in heal- care [1-3]. This book is aimed at providing the most recent advances and state of the art in the practical applications of computational intelligence paradigms in healthcare. It - cludes nineteen chapters on using various computational intelligence methods in healthcare such as intelligent agents and case-based reasoning. A number of fielded applications and case studies are presented. Highlighted are in particular novel c- putational approaches to the semantic management of health information such as in the Web 2.0, mobile agents such as in portable devices, learning agents capable of adapting to diverse clinical settings through case-based reasoning, and statistical - proaches in computational intelligence. This book is targeted towards scientists, application engineers, professors, health professionals, professors, and students. Background information on computational intelligence has been provided whenever necessary to facilitate the comprehension of a broad audience including healthcare practitioners.
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