%0 Journal Article %1 barak_06_interplay %A Barak, Dan %A Harel, David %A Marelly, Rami %D 2006 %J Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on %K 2006 statecharts %N 7 %P 467--485 %R 10.1109/TSE.2006.67 %T InterPlay: Horizontal Scale-Up and Transition to Design in Scenario-Based Programming %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2006.67 %V 32 %X We describe InterPlay, a simulation engine coordinator that supports cooperation and interaction of multiple simulation and execution tools, thus helping to scale up the design and development cycle of reactive systems. InterPlay involves a number of related ideas. In the first, we concentrate on the interobject design approach involving live sequence charts (LSCs) and its support tool, the Play-Engine, enabling multiple Play-Engines to run in cooperation. This makes possible the distributed design of large-scale systems by different teams, as well as the refinement of parts of a system using different Play-Engines. The second idea concerns combining the interobject approach with the more conventional intraobject approach, involving, for example, statecharts and Rhapsody. InterPlay makes it possible to run the Play-Engine in cooperation with Rhapsody, and is very useful when some system objects have clear and distinct internal behavior, or in an iterative development process where the design is implementation-oriented and the ultimate goal is to end up with an intraobject implementation. Finally, we have expanded the Play-Engine's ability to delegate some of the system's functionality to complex GUIs. This enables beneficial interaction with "smart"i¿½? GUIs that have built-in behavior of their own, and which are more naturally implemented in code.

@article{barak_06_interplay, abstract = {We describe InterPlay, a simulation engine coordinator that supports cooperation and interaction of multiple simulation and execution tools, thus helping to scale up the design and development cycle of reactive systems. InterPlay involves a number of related ideas. In the first, we concentrate on the interobject design approach involving live sequence charts (LSCs) and its support tool, the Play-Engine, enabling multiple Play-Engines to run in cooperation. This makes possible the distributed design of large-scale systems by different teams, as well as the refinement of parts of a system using different Play-Engines. The second idea concerns combining the interobject approach with the more conventional intraobject approach, involving, for example, statecharts and Rhapsody. InterPlay makes it possible to run the Play-Engine in cooperation with Rhapsody, and is very useful when some system objects have clear and distinct internal behavior, or in an iterative development process where the design is implementation-oriented and the ultimate goal is to end up with an intraobject implementation. Finally, we have expanded the Play-Engine's ability to delegate some of the system's functionality to complex GUIs. This enables beneficial interaction with "smart"{i}¿½? GUIs that have built-in behavior of their own, and which are more naturally implemented in code.}, added-at = {2009-02-11T20:55:19.000+0100}, author = {Barak, Dan and Harel, David and Marelly, Rami}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/200b36d0094201f2a057eaafe9a18dd24/leonardo}, citeulike-article-id = {1088327}, doi = {10.1109/TSE.2006.67}, interhash = {abc3acb1c13e7753392002a10ab25ca3}, intrahash = {00b36d0094201f2a057eaafe9a18dd24}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {2006 statecharts}, number = 7, pages = {467--485}, posted-at = {2007-03-20 12:31:41}, priority = {4}, timestamp = {2009-02-11T20:55:19.000+0100}, title = {InterPlay: Horizontal Scale-Up and Transition to Design in Scenario-Based Programming}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2006.67}, volume = 32, year = 2006 }