Generating filmstrip models from actor-based systems

Actor-based systems are hard to analyse because of their inherent complexity arising from large=scale concurrency and stochastic behaviour. History traces can be produced from such a system that describes what happened during execution leading to a challenge as to how the traces are processed. This tool demonstration shows a novel actor-based language ESL and its development environment EDB that has been extended to produce histories stored in temporal databases, and to use a logic programming language to construct graphical filmstrips from the databases.