@inproceedings{42e6e23d449d4377abf508176fc2b127,
title = "Designing specification languages for process control systems: Lessons learned and steps to the future",
abstract = "Previously, we defined a blackbox formal system modeling language called RSML (Requirements State Machine Language). The language was developed over several years while specifying the system requirements for a collision avoidance system for commercial passenger aircraft. During the language development, we received continual feed- back and evaluation by FAA employees and industry representatives, which helped us to produce a specification language that is easily learned and used by application experts. Since the completion of the RSML project, we have continued our re- search on specification languages. This research is part of a larger effort to investigate the more general problem of providing tools to assist in developing embedded systems. Our latest experimental toolset is called SpecTRM (Specification Tools and Requirements Methodology), and the formal specification language is SpecTRM-RL (SpecTRM Requirements Language). This paper describes what we have learned from our use of RSML and how those lessons were applied to the design of SpecTRM-RL. We discuss our goals for SpecTRM-RL and the design features that support each of these goals.",
author = "Leveson, {Nancy G.} and Heimdahl, {Mats P.E.} and Reese, {Jon Damon}",
year = "1999",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-48166-4_9",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540665382",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "127--144",
booktitle = "Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 1999 - 7th European Software Engineering Conference, Held Jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Proceedings",
note = "7th European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC 1999 - Held Jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 1999 ; Conference date: 06-09-1999 Through 10-09-1999",
}