TY - BOOK AU - Davies,Jim TI - Specification and proof in real-time CSP T2 - Distinguished dissertations in computer science SN - 9780511569760 (ebook) AV - QA76.54 .D38 1993 U1 - 004/.33 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Real-time data processing N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) N2 - This book was first published in 1993. Computing systems are becoming highly complex, harder to understand, and therefore more prone to failure. Where such systems control aircraft for example, system failure could have disastrous consequences. It is important therefore that we are able to employ mathematical techniques to specify the behaviour or safety critical systems. This thesis uses the theory of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) to show how a real-lime system may be specified. Included is a case study in which a local area network protocol is described at two levels of abstraction, and a general method 14 structuring CSP descriptions of layered protocols is given UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511569760 ER -