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%T A Communicating Threads Case Study: JIWY
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%A Jan F. Broenink, Gerald H. Hilderink, Dusko S. Jovanovic
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%E James S. Pascoe, Roger J. Loader, Vaidy S. Sunderam
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2002
%X We strive to allow a control system designer the power of
designing control computer code concurrently and generating
it efficiently, in spite of her or his lack of skills in
software engineering. This is important for many reasons.
Nowdays, it is impossible to separate control engineering
from software engineering. There is no way of implementing
control strategies other than to transform them into
computer code for the chosen processing target. Usually,
there are not so many general\-purpose programmers available
in control engineering research teams in companies and
universities. In these cases, software development
techniques suffer from insufficient knowledge in disciplines
of software modelling, concurrency, reusability and testing.
This paper develops a case study whose solution is based
upon the CSP principles supported by the Communicating
Threads libraries developed at Twente and argues why the
techniques are accessible to non\-computing\-specialist
control engineers.