A Practical Theory of Reactive Systems Incremental Modeling of Dynamic Behaviors /

• Main Author: Kurki-Suonio, Reino (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Texts in Theoretical Computer Science An EATCS Series
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Computer logic.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Software Engineering.

A man may imagine he understands something, but still not understand anything in the way that he ought to. (Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 8:2) Calling this a ‘practical theory’ may require some explanation. Theory and practice are often thought of as two di?erent worlds, governed bydi?erentideals,pr...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Components of a Theory
• Fundamentals
• Towards an Action Language
• Formal Properties of Behaviors
• Proving Behavioral Properties
• Building a Practical Theory
• Basic Language Facilities
• Fundamentals of Design Methodology
• Object Orientation Elaborated
• Components and Interfaces
• Distributed and Real-Time Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Real Time
• Epilogue
• Reexamining the Theory.