Timed state space analysis of real-time preemptive systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-111

  Bucci, Giacomo ^a   Fedeli, Andrea ^a   Sassoli, Luigi ^a   Vicario, Enrico ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hard real time systems; Interprocess communication; Multiprocessor schedulability; Nondeterministic time parameters; Preemptive scheduling; Preemptive time petri nets; Reactive systems; State space analysis; Timeliness predictability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATE SPACE METHODS;

INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; NONDETERMINISTIC TIME PARAMETERS; PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING; PREEMPTIVE TIME PETRI NETS; REACTIVE SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME PREEMPTIVE SYSTEMS; TIMED STATE SPACE ANALYSIS; TIMELINESS PREDICTABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842426438     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.1265815     Document Type: Article

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