Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0017-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1946-0740
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059177
