Paper Info
Title
Using coordinated atomic actions to design safety-critical systems: a production cell case study
Abstract
Coordinated Atomic actions (CA actions) are a unified approach to structuring complex concurrent activities and supporting error recovery between multiple interacting objects in object-oriented systems. This paper explains how we have used the CA action concept to design and implement a safety-critical application, We have used the Production Cell model that was developed in the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany, to present a realistic industry-oriented problem, where safety requirements play a significant role, Our design consists of two levels: the first level deals with the scheduling of CA actions, and the second level deals with the interactions between devices. Both the scheduling mechanism and the device interactions are enclosed by CA actions. Exception handling and error recovery are incorporated into CA actions in order to satisfy high safety and fault tolerance requirements. A controlling program based on our design was developed in the Java language and used to drive a graphical simulator provided by the FZI. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
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Softw., Pract. Exper.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
coordinated atomic actions object-oriented systems production cell safety-critical systems
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0038-0644
17
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.39
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Avelino F. Zorzo118824.27
Alexander B. Romanovsky238641.97
Jie Xu371157.85
Brian Randell43123551.69
Robert J. Stroud524024.67
Ian Welch6234.77