Semantics of dynamic structure event-based systems

  • Authors:
  • Fernando J. Barros

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed event-based systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents the semantics of the Heterogeneous Flow System Specification (HFSS). HFSS is a modular formalism able to describe hierarchical event-based systems with a time-varying structure. While using a traditional representation of discrete event systems it introduces the concept of generalized sampling to achieve a description of continuous signals on digital computers. Sampling is treated as a first order concept being explicitly supported. While push event-based systems can be formalized by discrete event systems, sampling is consider here as a formalization of pull event-based systems. We introduce the new concepts of basic and network HFSS components to describe the semantics of the corresponding HFSS models.