Telecommunications and beyond: The Broader Applicability of SDL and MSC

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on SDL and MSC, SAM 2002, held in Aberystwyth, UK in June 2002. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. A broad variety of current issues on SDL and on MSC and TTCN are addressed, in particular languages for collaborative specification, visual requirements description, constraints in SDL, SDL extensions, protocol design, UMS protocol implementation, use case map scenarios, message sequence charts, MSC connectors, MSC-2000 extensions, and TTCN-3 in relation to UML and MSC.

Inhalt

SDL.- CoSDL - An Experimental Language for Collaboration Specification.- URN: Towards a New Standard for the Visual Description of Requirements.- Expression of Time and Duration Constraints in SDL.- SDL Time Extensions from a Semantic Point of View.- Micro Protocol Design: The SNMP Case Study1.- Implementation of UMTS Protocol Layers for the Radio Access Interface.- Object-Oriented Specification of Protocols for Reusability.- Rapid Development of Network Software via SDL/Socket Interfaces.- Understanding Existing Software with Use Case Map Scenarios.- Techniques for Abstracting SDL Specifications.- Model-Based Generation of SDL Specifications for the Early Prototyping of Reactive Systems.- MSC and TTCN.- Automatic Generation of Conformance Tests from Message Sequence Charts.- MSC Connectors - The Philosopher's Stone.- An Extension for MSC-2000 and Its Application.- The Graphical Format of TTCN-3 in the Context of MSC and UML.