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SDL and Layered Systems: Proposed Extensions to SDL to Better Support the Design of Layered Systems

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Designing complex systems as stacks of collaborating layers is a common practice in various domains, from operating systems to user interfaces. It proves to be particularly fruitful in the domain of telecom systems and, more generally, in distributed systems. After showing why, today, SDL is not well suited for the design of layered systems, we explore usual techniques available in programming languages. Then, we attempt giving SDL the power of expression necessary to view and manipulate signals at different abstraction levels while preserving the language spirit, staying at design level.

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  1. Telelogic France, 150 Rue Nicolas Vauquelin, BP 1310, 31106, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Rodolphe Arthaud

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  1. Telecommunications Software Engineering Ltd., 13Weston House, 18-22 Church Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4AW, UK

    Rick Reed  & Jeanne Reed  & 

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Arthaud, R. (2001). SDL and Layered Systems: Proposed Extensions to SDL to Better Support the Design of Layered Systems. In: Reed, R., Reed, J. (eds) SDL 2001: Meeting UML. SDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48213-X_4

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