| Author | Lian, Jie |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CS-98-3 |
| Subject(s) | SDL (Computer program language)
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| Note | A thesis submitted in Partials fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master
of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The Specification and Description Language (SDL) and the Message Sequence Chart
(MSC) are two widespread used languages for developments of real time system.
Each of them has advantages and disadvantages for some particular fields of real time
system. But the disadvantages of one can be avoided in the other. The combination of
abilities of the two languages will provide a more powerful method of system
developments than only one of them does.
In SDL the dynamic behavior actors are processes. Meanwhile MSC also describes
the dynamic behaviors of system message exchange. But they have different
characteristics. Because both of them describe a same field of system, there should
exist relationships between them. This thesis focuses on the relationships and
conversions between SDL processes and MSC. Under these relationships, if one is
known, then the other will be obtained automatically by using the conversion rules.
Thus this kind of conversions not only may provide an efficient way for system
specification and description, but may reduce the workload of system design as well.
The study of this thesis starts from their mathematical definitions and ends at defining
a set of conversion rules. All the conversion rules are based on the automata theory,
SDL and MSC definitions. |
| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Computer Science (CS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Vilas Wuwongse ; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Batanov, Dentcho N. ;Jianguo, Zhang; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Partial Scholarship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998 |