An architecture for time-aware systems

Author

Fiamberti, Francesco ; Micucci, Daniela ; Tisato, Francesco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Syst. & Commun., Univ. of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper presents a set of architectural abstractions that allow time-related aspects to be explicitly treated as first-class programming concepts at the application level. Both the temporal behavior of an application and the way it deals with information placed in a temporal context can be modeled by means of such abstractions, thus narrowing the semantic gap between specification and implementation. The paper introduces the abstractions by means of a simplified reference problem and presents the validation of a concrete implementation.

Keywords

formal specification; real-time systems; software architecture; application temporal behavior; architectural abstractions; first-class programming concepts; semantic gap; temporal context; time-aware system architecture; time-related aspects; Clocks; Concrete; Context; Indexes; Observers; Real time systems; Unified modeling language; real-time systems; time awareness; time reasoning; time-driven systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0017-0

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059177

Filename

6059177