Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture)

Christopher Brooks, Edward A. Lee, Xiaojun Liu, Stephen Neuendorffer, Yang Zhao and Haiyang Zheng

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/ERL M05/22
July 2005

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/ERL-05-22.pdf

This volume describes the software architecture of Ptolemy II. The first chapter covers the kernel package, which provides a set of Java classes supporting clustered graph topologies for models. Cluster graphs provide a very general abstract syntax for component-based modeling, without assuming or imposing any semantics on the models. The actor package begins to add semantics by providing basic infrastructure for data transport between components. The data package provides classes to encapsulate the data that is transported. It also provides an extensible type system and an interpreted expression language. The graph package provides graph-theoretic algorithms that are used in the type system and by schedulers in the individual domains. The plot package provides a visual data plotting utility that is used in many of the applets and applications. Vergil is the graphical front end to Ptolemy II and Vergil itself uses Ptolemy II to describe its own configuration.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Brooks:M05/22,
    Author = {Brooks, Christopher and Lee, Edward A. and Liu, Xiaojun and Neuendorffer, Stephen and Zhao, Yang and Zheng, Haiyang},
    Title = {Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture)},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {2005},
    Month = {Jul},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2005/9572.html},
    Number = {UCB/ERL M05/22},
    Abstract = {This volume describes the software architecture of Ptolemy II. The first chapter covers the kernel package, which provides a set of Java classes supporting clustered graph topologies for models. Cluster graphs provide a very general abstract syntax for component-based modeling, without assuming or imposing any semantics on the models. The actor package begins to add semantics by providing basic infrastructure for data transport between components. The data package provides classes to encapsulate the data that is transported. It also provides an extensible type system and an interpreted expression language. The graph package provides graph-theoretic algorithms that are used in the type system and by schedulers in the individual domains. The plot package provides a visual data plotting utility that is used in many of the applets and applications. Vergil is the graphical front end to Ptolemy II and Vergil itself uses Ptolemy II to describe its own configuration.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Liu, Xiaojun
%A Neuendorffer, Stephen
%A Zhao, Yang
%A Zheng, Haiyang
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%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2005
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