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A Design Pattern for State Machines and Concurrent Activities

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State machines are used to design real-time software controlling anything from household devices to spacecraft. They are also a standard way of describing the life of an object in object-oriented analysis and design. This paper presents a pattern for the implementation of state machines and associated activities by means of tasks and protected objects. It is a refinement of earlier work on a state-machine pattern and part of a set of concurrent design patterns based on the entity-life modeling design philosophy.

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  1. Colorado Technical University, 4435 N. Chestnut Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 80907-3896, USA

    Bo I. Sandén

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  1. Offis nv/sa - Aubay Group, Offis & K.U. Leuven, Weiveldlaan 41/32, 1930, Zaventem, Belgium

    Dirk Craeynest

  2. EPFL-DI-LGL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

    Alfred Strohmeier

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Sandén, B.I. (2001). A Design Pattern for State Machines and Concurrent Activities. In: Craeynest, D., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable SoftwareTechnologies — Ada-Europe 2001. Ada-Europe 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2043. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45136-6_16

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