Acknowledgements:

I gratefully acknowledge help received from Nancy Leveson, Willem-Paul de Roever, Al Mok, Dave Parnas, Murray Wonham, Jozef Hooman, Ron Koymans, Ben Moszkowski, Mike Gordon, Farnam Jahanian, Insup Lee, Rajeev Alur and Roger Hale. Of course, any errors or misinterpretation of concepts is my sole responsibility.