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The only in-depth guide to Statecharts,the most popular approach forthe development of real-time and reactive systems. For systems engineers,software engineers,and electrical engineers in all fields,here at last is complete information on the concepts behind the Statemate toolset developed by I-Logix,Inc.,the fullest and most powerful approach to the modeling of reactive systems. This guide first describes the dominant Statecharts,which are used to describe system behavior,and then explores the hierarchical language of Activity-charts,which describe the system's activities and the data that flows between them. It then shows how to use these two synergistic languages to develop a conceptual model of the system,which can then be combined with a physical or structural model using the third language of Module-charts. These languages and the subsequent Statemate toolset constitute a …