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The Production Cell example was chosen by FZI (the Computer Science Research Center), in Karlsruhe. to examine the benefits of formal methods for industrial applications. This example was implemented in more than 30 formalisms. This paper describes the implementation of the Production Cell in OBSERV. The OBSERV methodology for software development is based on rapid construction of an executable specification, or prototype, of a system, which may be examined and modified repeatedly to achieve the desired functionality. The objectives of OBSERV also include facilitating a smooth transition to a target system, and providing means for reusing specification, design, and code of systems, particularly real-time reactive systems. In this paper we show how the methods used in the OBSERV implementation address the requirements imposed by reactive systems. We describe the OBSERV implementation of the Production cell, explain design decisions, with special emphasis on reusability and safety issues. We demonstrate how to take care of safety and liveness properties required for this example. These properties are checked by means of simulation and formally proved with a model checker.
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Tyszberowicz, S.S. How to Implement a Safe Real-Time System:The OBSERV Implementation of the Production Cell Case Study. Real-Time Systems 15, 61–90 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008074907254
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