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计算机科学技术学报 1998
An overview of Duration Calculus
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Abstract:
TheDurationCalculus(abbreviatedDC)representsalogicalapproachtoformaldesignofreal-timesystems.DCisbasedonintervallOgic,andusestherealnumberstomodeltime,andBoolean-valued(i.e.{0,1}-valued)functionsovertimetomodelstatesandeventsofreaLtimesystems.Thedurationofastateinatimeintervalistheaccumulatedpresencetimeofthestateintheinterval.DCextendsintervallogicwithacalculustospecifyandreasonaboutpropertiesofstatedurations.TheresearchofDCwasintroducedintheProCoSproject(ESPRITBRA3104and7071),whent…