Abstract

Statecharts is a behavioural specification language for the specification of real-time event driven reactive systems. Recently, statecharts was related to a logical specification language, using which safety and liveness properties could be expressed# this language provides a compositional proof system for statecharts. However, the logical specification language is flat, with no facilities to account for the structure of statecharts; further, the primitives of this language are dependent on statecharts syntax, and cannot be related directly to the problem domain. This paper discusses a temporal logic-based specification language called FNLOG which addresses these problems.

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