Experience with RT-LOTOS, a temporal extension of the LOTOS formal description technique

  • Authors:
  • J. -P. Courtiat;C. A. S. Santos;C. Lohr;B. Outtaj

  • Affiliations:
  • LAAS-CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France;LAAS-CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France;LAAS-CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex, France;Ecole Mohamedia d'Ingénieurs, Rabat, Morocco

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper is devoted to the presentation of the RT-LOTOS formal description technique, which is a formalism suited for applications where concurrency, complex synchronization patterns, asynchronous interactions and timing constraints have to be dealt with together. The paper does not emphasize the details of the RT-LOTOS formal semantics, but intends to explain and illustrate its main features, as well as the main capabilities of its associated software tool rtl. Finally, this paper reports on different applications and case studies that have recently been developed at LAAS-CNRS, some of them in cooperation with the industry.