wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) (12/16/89)
Two excellent papers have recently appeared in _Communications Of The ACM_ on the topic of Entity-Life Modeling, a design technique for concurrent software systems. The first article, "An Entity-Life Modeling Approach to the Design of Concurrent Software", illustrates the design of a elevator control system using entity-life modeling, and compares it to the JSD (Jackson Structured Development) approach. It appears in the March 1989 issue (Volume 32, Number 3), pages 330-343. The second article, "Entity-Life Modeling and Structured Analysis in Real-Time Software Design - A Comparison", compares the approach of entity-life modeling with the approach of structured analysis. It appears in the December 1989 issue (Volume 32, Number 12), pages 1458-1466. The author is Bo Sanden, of the Center for Software Systems Engineering at George Mason University. I strongly recommend these articles to anyone who is interested in the topic of designing concurrent software systems. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu