Ptolemy II Design Document

The canonical paper about Ptolemy is
  • Johan Eker, Jorn Janneck, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Jozsef Ludvig, Sonia Sachs, Yuhong Xiong, "Taming heterogeneity - the Ptolemy approach," Proceedings of the IEEE, 91(1):127-144,January 2003.
    • The most recent version of the Ptolemy II Design Documents can be found at:
  • C. Brooks, E.A. Lee, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Zhao, H. Zheng (eds.), "Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 1: Introduction to Ptolemy II)," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-28, April 1, 2008.

    We've made just Volume I, Chapter 2 available as a separate document:

  • Edward A. Lee and Stephen Neuendorffer, "Tutorial: Building Ptolemy II Models Graphically," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2007-129, October 31, 2007
  • C. Brooks, E.A. Lee, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Zhao, H. Zheng (eds.), "Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture)," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-29, April 1, 2008.
  • C. Brooks, E.A. Lee, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Zhao, H. Zheng (eds.), "Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 3: Ptolemy II Domains)," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-37, April 15, 2008.