gasser@USC-CSE.USC.EDU (02/07/86)
From: gasser@usc-cse.usc.edu USC DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING GROUP MEETING "Formalizing the Development of Systems of Actors" Ed Ipser Ph.D Student, USC A formalization of the process of specifying and developing distributed systems is presented, with the emphasis on the description of multiple robot environments. The general scheme is a recursive reduction of behaviors with constraints to actors with pre-determined behaviors by showing that the behaviors of the actors satisfy the behavior and constraint requirements of the system. Possible applications of this scheme are presented, including automatic programming, planning, theorem proving, and the description of non-computable functions. This work is based on the work of Goldman and Wile on GIST, and Georgeff's work on the theory of processes. Time: 3:00 PM Wednesday, Feb 12, 1986 Place: Seaver Science Bldg., Room 319, USC Questions: Dr. Les Gasser, CS Dept., USC (213) 743-7794