One of the useful formalisms for designing concurrent systems is the process algebra called CSP, or Communicating Sequential Processes. CSP statements can be used to model a system's control and data flow in an intuitive way, constituting a kind of hierarchical behavioral specification. Furthermore, when coupled with simulation and model-checking tools, these statements can be executed and debugged until the desired behavior has been accurately captured. Certain properties (such as absence of deadlocks) can be proved, to help verify the correctness of the design.
To make the verified specifications executable in a practical sense, refinement to a programming language is required. In this work, an new object-oriented application framework is described which realizes the basic elements of CSP—processes, synchronizing events, and communication channels—in natural terms as C++ objects. In addition, a new software tool is provided to customize the framework by translating CSP statements into invocations of the framework elements. CSP specifications, thus reexpressed in C++ and compiled, form the control portion of a system, able to be linked with other software written in C++ that completes the functionality. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/9350 |
| Date | 09 May 2018 |
| Creators | Gardner, William Bennett |
| Contributors | Serra, Micaela |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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