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Implementing Hierarchical Features in a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language

This paper addresses the challenges of cluttered diagrams in visual formal models within distributed systems. It introduces a solution using a Hierarchical Feature approach in RDT (Rapid Development Tool), allowing for cleaner representations of processes and their communication channels. By hiding low-level details, the models can focus on high-level structures without losing essential information. The significance of clear visual modeling is emphasized, along with the need to manage connectors and communication channels effectively to improve model clarity.

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Implementing Hierarchical Features in a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language

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  1. Implementing Hierarchical Features in a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language Peter Henderson, Robert John Walters and Stephen Crouch Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

  2. Outline • Visual Formal Models? • The problem • A solution (in RDT) • Conclusion

  3. Formal models • An aid to building distributed systems • Execution • Rigorous analysis • Appeal of visual interface

  4. RDT • Visual Modelling Language • Processes • Communication via channels • Tools for: • Model Creation • Execution • Translation to Promela

  5. What goes wrong • Diagrams become cluttered • Simple solution: • Hide low level details within processes • RDT does this by showing only the name/type of processes and their channels in model diagrams • But this is not the whole solution

  6. The Problem: • What we would like to draw:

  7. The Problem • What we would like to draw: • What we actually do:

  8. A process for the election algorithm

  9. Using processes to build a model

  10. Executing the model

  11. Building the same model with connectors

  12. The Connector in RDT

  13. Issues: • Need to distinguish which end of a connector is which • Dangling ends: • What if about channels in the process not in the connector? • What about channels in the connector not known to the process? • What about channels which connect at just one end?

  14. Conclusion • Visual Formal Models can be useful • Single level diagrams get cluttered • Addressing this requires attention to channels as well as processes, but it can be done

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