TEMPER: a temporal programmer for time-sensitive control of discrete event systems

  • Authors:
  • A. K. Zaidi;A. H. Levis

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Mohammad Ali Jinnah Univ., Karachi;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The paper is an extension of an earlier work (Zaidi, 1999) on a methodology for modeling temporal aspects of discrete-event systems. The methodology incorporates point and interval descriptions of time, and offers both qualitative and quantitative calculus for time. A graph-based temporal programmer (TEMPER) is shown to implement the axiomatic system of the temporal formalism. The approach transforms the system specifications given by temporal statements into a graph structure, identifies errors (if present) in the system, infers new temporal relations among system intervals, and calculates delays among time points and their actual time of occurrence