Abstract

Real-Time Reactive Systems are large complex systems. Many researchers have been studying this field and have developed specification methods to reason about the behavior and attributes of real time reactive systems from different perspectives. This thesis contributes to the development of one part of a tool that will provide an environment to specify, design, debug and simulate real-time reactive systems built on TROM s, Timed Reactive Object Models. The tool consists of three major parts: Editor, Interpreter (including Axiom Generator) and Simulator. The Interpreter which is fundamental to the tool is the subject of study in this thesis. The Interpreter will do syntax and semantic analysis for user specification and generate internal data representation to perform the simulation. The Axiom Generator will generate axioms for each particular TROM to be used by formal verification during system simulation.