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Timed Communicating Object Z Brendan Mahony and Jin Song Dong
Abstract manner. In consequence, the blending of state-modeling and process languages has This paper describes a timed, multi- become an active area of research [22, 51, threaded object modeling notation for 53, 25]. specifying real-time, concurrent, and re- Object-Z [20] is an object oriented ex- active systems. The notation Timed Com- tension of the Z formal specification lan- municating Object Z (TCOZ) builds on guage. Z is a model-oriented specification Object-Zs strengths in modeling com- language with powerful features for de- plex data and algorithms, and on Timed scribing complex data structures and their CSPs strengths in modeling pr ocess con- operations. Object-Z improves the clar- trol and real-time interactions. TCOZ is ity of large Z specifications through en- novel in that it includes timing primitives, hanced structuring. However, the process pr operly separates pr ocess control and semantics of Object-Z mean that: process data/algorithm issues and supports the execution is single threaded; operations modeling of true multi-threaded concur- are atomic, there is no notion of the du- rency. TCOZ isparticularly well suitedfor ration of operations; and process control specifying complex systems whose compo- logic is tightly coupled with class struc- nents have their own thread of control. The ture. Therefore, it is difficult to use Object- expressiveness of the notation is demon- Z to model concurrent real-time reactive strated by a case study in specifying a systems.