Workshop on the Specification of Linking Interfaces

The NEXT TTA Consortium organized a Workshop on the Specification of Linking Interfaces, that took place in Philadelphia, USA on October 12, 2003.

The second workshop of the NEXT TTA Project was devoted to the topic of “Specification of Linking Interfaces” in a dependable distributed real-time system. We assume that a large real-time system can be decomposed into a set of communicating nodes that interact by exchanging messages using a real-time transport service. Every node offers one or more services across a message-based linking interface (LIF), e.g., an incoming request message that requests a specific service and an outgoing response message that contains the requested reply. It is a key challenge in the design of a distributed system to generate a LIF specification that is complete and minimal. Such a LIF specification marks the dividing line between system design and node design. It is a prerequisite for the solution of the reuse problem, the composability problem and the system integration problem where different nodes are designed by different organizations.

Participation was restricted to invitation.

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