Templar: a knowledge-based language for software specifications using temporal logic

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Tuzhilin

  • Affiliations:
  • New York Univ., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

A software specification language Templar is defined in this article. The development of the language was guided by the following objectives: requirements specifications written in Templar should have a clear syntax and formal semantics, should be easy for a systems analyst to develop and for an end-user to understand, and it should be easy to map them into a broad range of design specifications. Templar is based on temporal logic and on the Activity-Event-Condition-Activity model of a rule which is an extension of the Event-Condition-Activity model in active databases. The language supports a rich set of modeling primitives, including rules, procedures, temporal logic operators, events, activities, hierarchical decomposition of activities, parallelism, and decisions combined together into a cohesive system.