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Mathematical models of the timed behaviour of system components form a hierarchy of timing concepts. This is demonstrated for systems that communicate via input and output streams. We distinguish non-timed streams, discrete streams with discrete and with continuous time, and dense streams with continuous time. We demonstrate how exchanges of the timing models during the system-development process are captured as classical abstraction steps.
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Broy, M. (2003). Abstractions from time. In: McIver, A., Morgan, C. (eds) Programming Methodology. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21798-7_5
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