Intelligent Real Time System Assessment Tool

1Real-time systems often suffer from performance inconsistent with client needs and expensive revisions late in the development life cycle. This is due to development methods and computer-aided design tools relying heavily on an informal and inaccurate process for communicating requirements. A methodology and supporting tool set is needed to integrate requirement details with a system's design and analysis. This project proposes an intelligent real-time system assissment tool (ExpeR/T) that integrates requirement specification, systems design, software design, and design assessment. It will provide the client and engineer with an automated tool that suggests design improvements when system model analysis detects problems. ExpeR/T utilizes an innovative combination of methods, techniques and concepts which are currently treated as disjoint and separate issues in the technical literature. It combines the concepts of real-time systems analysis, software structured analysis, and English-like requirements specifications. These concepts are integrated through a combination of artificial intellignece experts system rules, graphical system design, English-like requirements specifications, design analysis, and design modeling/simulation. During Phase I, ExpeR/T requirements will be defined, preliminary design of system design diagram transformation and quality evaluation will be performed, and a proof-of-concept ExpeR/T prototype will be developed.