{"title":"Entity behaviour descriptions-A specification model for communicating entities","authors":"Joanne L. Boyd, G. Karam","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404207","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the Entity Behavior Description (EBD) modelling technique for specifying the behavioral requirements of a set of communicating entities in a concurrent system. EBDs are finite state machines which describe the abstract behaviour of an entity. This abstract behavior is defined as the combination of the application-specific behavior, and the semantics of the communications. EBDs are given formal operational semantics which explicitly separate these two behavioral components; and, as such, are a fundamental component of a design process which emphasizes the strong traceability of behavioral requirements in a design.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":375808,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1993 IEEE 17th International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC '93","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 1993 IEEE 17th International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC '93","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404207","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents the Entity Behavior Description (EBD) modelling technique for specifying the behavioral requirements of a set of communicating entities in a concurrent system. EBDs are finite state machines which describe the abstract behaviour of an entity. This abstract behavior is defined as the combination of the application-specific behavior, and the semantics of the communications. EBDs are given formal operational semantics which explicitly separate these two behavioral components; and, as such, are a fundamental component of a design process which emphasizes the strong traceability of behavioral requirements in a design.<>