Modelling Coordinated Atomic Actions in Timed CSP

  • Authors:
  • Simeon Veloudis;Nimal Nissanke

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FTRTFT '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper proposes a formal framework for modelling the interaction of concurrent items of equipment in real-time safety-critical systems and reasoning about their behaviour abstractly. The framework is based on the concept of Coordinated Atomic (CA) actions, an approach widely used for structuring complex activities in fault-tolerant computer systems. It advocates a hierarchical approach and begins with the construction of a mathematical model of the behaviour of an individual item of equipment. Later on, the model is extended to incorporate the concept of a CA action. In the final stage, a formal representation of the ideal behaviour of an abstract CA action is provided. The framework uses Timed CSP - a well-established formalism used for representation and reasoning in real-time systems.