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Refinement Calculus

Author : Ralph-Johan Back
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461216745
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Refinement Calculus written by Ralph-Johan Back and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much current research in computer science is concerned with two questions: is a program correct? And how can we improve a correct program preserving correctness? This latter question is known as the refinement of programs and the purpose of this book is to consider these questions in a formal setting. In fact, correctness turns out to be a special case of refinement and so the focus is on refinement. Although a reasonable background knowledge is assumed from mathematics and CS, the book is a self-contained introduction suitable for graduate students and researchers coming to this subject for the first time. There are numerous exercises provided of varying degrees of challenge.

On the Refinement Calculus

Author : Carroll Morgan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447132734
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book On the Refinement Calculus written by Carroll Morgan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Refinement Calculus gives one view of the development of the refinement calculus and its attempt to bring together - among other things - Z specifications and Dijkstra's programming language. It is an excellent source of reference material for all those seeking the background and mathematical underpinnings of the refinement calculus.

Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems

Author : Jaco W. de Bakker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540525592
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Stepwise Refinement of Distributed Systems written by Jaco W. de Bakker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-04-25 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stepwise refinement method postulates a system construction route that starts with a high-level specification, goes through a number of provably correct development steps, and ends with an executable program. The contributions to this volume survey the state of the art in this extremely active research area. The world's leading specialists in concurrent program specification, verification, and the theory of their refinement present latest research results and surveys of the fields. State-based, algebraic, temporal logic oriented and category theory oriented approaches are presented. Special attention is paid to the relationship between compositionality and refinement for distributed programs. Surveys are given of results on refinement in partial-order based approaches to concurrency. A unified treatment is given of the assumption/commitment paradigm in compositional concurrent program specification and verification, and the extension of these to liveness properties. Latest results are presented on specifying and proving concurrent data bases correct, and deriving network protocols from their specifications.

Refinement

Author : John Derrick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319927116
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Refinement written by John Derrick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refinement is one of the cornerstones of a formal approach to software engineering. Refinement is all about turning an abstract description (of a soft or hardware system) into something closer to implementation. It provides that essential bridge between higher level requirements and an implementation of those requirements. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to refinement for the researcher or graduate student. It introduces refinement in different semantic models, and shows how refinement is defined and used within some of the major formal methods and languages in use today. It (1) introduces the reader to different ways of looking at refinement, relating refinement to observations(2) shows how these are realised in different semantic models (3) shows how different formal methods use different models of refinement, and (4) how these models of refinement are related.

Program Design Calculi

Author : Manfred Broy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662028808
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Program Design Calculi written by Manfred Broy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of information processing systems requires models, calculi, and theories for the analysis of computations. It is well understood by now that more complex software systems cannot and should not be constructed in one step. A careful, systematic, and disciplined structuring of the development process is most adequate. It should start from basic requirement specifications in which aU the relevant details of the problem to be solved are formalized. The envisaged solution should be developed step by step by adding more and more details and giving evidence-in the best case by formal proof-to show the correctness of the developed steps. The development ends if a description of a solution is obtained that has aU the required properties. The Summer School in Marktoberdorf 1992 showed significant approaches in this area to refinement calculi, to models of computation, and as a special issue to the treatment of reactive timed systems. Like in the many summer schools before, the success of the 1992 Summer School was not only due to the excellent lectures, but even more due to the brilliant students taking part in the discussions at the summer school, the exchange of different views, and the recognition of the similarity of a number of different view points. These were some of the most important contributions of the summer school. fu the following the proceedings of the summer school are collected. They show the maturity of the field in an impressive way.

Refinement in Z and Object-Z

Author : John Derrick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447153553
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Refinement in Z and Object-Z written by John Derrick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refinement is one of the cornerstones of the formal approach to software engineering, and its use in various domains has led to research on new applications and generalisation. This book brings together this important research in one volume, with the addition of examples drawn from different application areas. It covers four main themes: Data refinement and its application to Z Generalisations of refinement that change the interface and atomicity of operations Refinement in Object-Z Modelling state and behaviour by combining Object-Z with CSP Refinement in Z and Object-Z: Foundations and Advanced Applications provides an invaluable overview of recent research for academic and industrial researchers, lecturers teaching formal specification and development, industrial practitioners using formal methods in their work, and postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students. This second edition is a comprehensive update to the first and includes the following new material: Early chapters have been extended to also include trace refinement, based directly on partial relations rather than through totalisation Provides an updated discussion on divergence, non-atomic refinements and approximate refinement Includes a discussion of the differing semantics of operations and outputs and how they affect the abstraction of models written using Object-Z and CSP Presents a fuller account of the relationship between relational refinement and various models of refinement in CSP Bibliographic notes at the end of each chapter have been extended with the most up to date citations and research

6th Refinement Workshop

Author : David Till
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447132408
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book 6th Refinement Workshop written by David Till and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Refinement Workshop took place at City University in London from 5th to 7th January 1994. The present volume includes all of the papers which were submitted and accepted for presentation, together with two papers by invited speakers. The workshops in the series have generally occurred at one year intervals but in this last case a two year period had elapsed. These workshops have established themselves as an important event in the calendar for all those who are interested in progress in the underlying theory of refinement and in the take-up by industry of the methods supported by that theory. One of the proposed themes of the sixth workshop was the reporting of successful adoption in industry of rigorous software development methods. The programme committee was perhaps slightly disappointed by the response from industry to the call in this respect. However, the recent period could be characterised as one of consolidation, when those companies which have made the decision that formal development methods are important to their business have been adopting them where appropriate and finding them to be worthwhile. On the other hand,. the difficult economic climate which exists in most parts of the developed world is perhaps not the context within which companies still dubious about the benefits are goil'\g to opt for making major changes in their working practices.

4th Refinement Workshop

Author : Joseph M. Morris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447137566
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book 4th Refinement Workshop written by Joseph M. Morris and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings ofthe 4th Refinement Workshop which was organised by the British Computer Society specialist group in Formal Aspects of Computing Science and held in Wolfson College, Cambridge, on 9-11 January, 1991. The term refinement embraces the theory and practice of using formal methods for specifying and implementing hardware and software. Most of the achievements to date in the field have been in developing the theoretical framework for mathematical approaches to programming, and on the practical side in formally specifying software, while more recently we have seen the development of practical approaches to deriving programs from their speCifications. The workshop gives a fair picture of the state of the art: it presents new theories for reasoning about software and hardware and case studies in applying known theory to interesting small-and medium-scale problems. We hope the book will be Of interest both to researchers in formal methods, and to software engineers in industry who want to keep abreast of possible applications of formal methods in industry. The programme consisted both of invited talks and refereed papers. The invited speakers were Ib S0rensen, Jean-Raymond Abrial, Donald MacKenzie, Ralph Back, Robert Milne, Mike Read, Mike Gordon, and Robert Worden who gave the introductory talk. This is the first refinement workshop that solicited papers for refereeing, and despite a rather late call for papers the response was excellent.

5th Refinement Workshop

Author : Cliff B. Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447135504
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book 5th Refinement Workshop written by Cliff B. Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refinement is the term used to describe systematic and formal methods of specifying hard- and software and transforming the specifications into designs and implementations. The value of formal methods in producing reliable hard- and software is widely appreciated by academics and workers in industry, despite the fact that certain research areas, such as the application to industrial-scale problems, are still in their infancy. This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th Refinement Workshop held in London, 8-10 January 1992. Its theme was the theory and practice of software specifications, which is the transformation of formal software specifications into more correct specifications, designs and codes. This has been an important area of research for the last 5 years and the workshop addressed specific issues and problems related to it. Among the topics discussed in this volume are: the role of refinement in software development, parallel designs and implementations, methods and tools for verification of critical properties, refinement and confidentiality, concurrent processes as objects, the compliance of Ada programs with Z specifications and a tactic driven refinement tool. This is the latest refinement workshop proceedings to be published in the Workshops in Computing series (the 3rd and 4th workshops having appeared in 1990 and 1991 respectively). It will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers, postgraduate students and research-oriented developers in the computer industry.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Philippe Audebaud
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540705945
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Philippe Audebaud and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2008, held in Marseille, France in July 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. Issues addressed range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. Topics of special interest are type systems, program analysis and transformation, programming language semantics, program logics.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Eerke A. Boiten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354045442X
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Eerke A. Boiten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2002, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in July 2002. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; also presented are one invited paper and the abstracts of two invited talks. Among the topics covered are programming methodology, program specification, program transformation, programming paradigms, programming calculi, and programming language semantics.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Claude Bolduc
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642133207
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Claude Bolduc and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community, with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available. The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI and LNBI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields. In parallel to the printed book, each new volume is published electronically in LNCS Online.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540513056
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-06-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers included in this volume were presented at the Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction held from June 26 to 30, 1989. The conference was organized by the Department of Computing Science, Groningen University, The Netherlands, at the occasion of the University's 375th anniversary. The creative inspiration of the modern computer has led to the development of new mathematics, the mathematics of program construction. Initially concerned with the posterior verification of computer programs, the mathematics have now matured to the point where they are actively being used for the discovery of elegant solutions to new programming problems. Initially concerned specifically with imperative programming, the application of mathematical methodologies is now established as an essential part of all programming paradigms - functional, logic and object-oriented programming, modularity and type structure etc. Initially concerned with software only, the mathematics are also finding fruit in hardware design so that the traditional boundaries between the two disciplines have become blurred. The varieties of mathematics of program construction are wide-ranging. They include calculi for the specification of sequential and concurrent programs, program transformation and analysis methodologies, and formal inference systems for the construction and analysis of programs. The mathematics of specification, implementation and analysis have become indispensable tools for practical programming.

Data Refinement

Author : W.-P. de Roever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521641705
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Download or read book Data Refinement written by W.-P. de Roever and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate text in formal methods in computer science.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Roland Backhouse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540450254
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Roland Backhouse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of MPC 2000, the ?fth international c- ference on Mathematics of Program Construction. This series of conferences aims to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably useful and usable in the process of constructing c- puter programs (whether implemented in hardware or software). The focus is on techniques that combine precision with concision, enabling programs to be constructed by formal calculation. Within this theme, the scope of the series is very diverse, including programming methodology, program speci?cation and transformation, programming paradigms, programming calculi, and progr- ming language semantics. The quality of the papers submitted to the conference was in general very high. However,the number of submissions has decreased compared to the pre- ous conferences in the series. Each paper was refereed by at least ?ve and often more committee members. In order to maintain the high standards of the c- ference the committee took a stringent view on quality; this has meant that, in some cases, a paper was rejected even though there was a basis for a good c- ference or journal paper but the submitted paper did not meet the committee’s required standards. In a few cases a good paper was rejected on the grounds that it did not ?t within the scope of the conference.

Program Development in Computational Logic

Author : Maurice Bruynooghe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540259511
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book Program Development in Computational Logic written by Maurice Bruynooghe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 The tenth anniversary of the LOPSTR symposium provided the incentive for this volume. LOPSTR started in 1991 as a workshop on logic program synthesis and transformation, but later it broadened its scope to logic-based program development in general, that is, program development in computational logic, and hence the title of this volume. The motivating force behind LOPSTR has been the belief that declarative paradigms such as logic programming are better suited to program development tasks than traditional non-declarative ones such as the imperative paradigm. Speci?cation, synthesis, transformation or specialization, analysis, debugging and veri?cation can all be given logical foundations, thus providing a unifying framework for the whole development process. In the past 10 years or so, such a theoretical framework has indeed begun to emerge. Even tools have been implemented for analysis, veri?cation and speci- ization. However,itisfairtosaythatsofarthefocushaslargelybeenonprogrammi- in-the-small. So the future challenge is to apply or extend these techniques to programming-in-the-large, in order to tackle software engineering in the real world. Returning to this volume, our aim is to present a collection of papers that re?ect signi?cant research e?orts over the past 10 years. These papers cover the wholedevelopmentprocess:speci?cation,synthesis,analysis,transformationand specialization, as well as semantics and systems.

Mathematics of Program Construction

Author : Tarmo Uustalu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540356312
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Mathematics of Program Construction written by Tarmo Uustalu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematics of ProgramConstruction, MPC 2006,held at Kuressaare, Estonia, July 3-5, 2006, colocated with the 11th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST 2006, July 5-8, 2006. TheMPCconferencesaimtopromotethedevelopmentofmathematicalpr- ciples and techniques that are demonstrably useful and usable in the process of constructing computer programs. Topics of interest range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. The previous MPCs were held at Twente, The Netherlands (1989, LNCS 375), Oxford, UK (1992, LNCS 669), Kloster Irsee, Germany (1995,LNCS 947), Marstrand, Sweden (1998, LNCS 1422), Ponte de Lima, Portugal (2000, LNCS 1837), Dagstuhl, Germany (2002, LNCS 2386) and Stirling, UK (2004, LNCS 3125, colocated with AMAST 2004). MPC 2006 received 45 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by four Programme Committee members or additional referees. The committee decided to accept 22 papers. In addition, the programme included three invited talks by Robin Cockett (University of Calgary, Canada), Olivier Danvy (Aarhus Univ- sitet, Denmark) and Oege de Moor (University of Oxford, UK). The review process and compilation of the proceedings were greatly helped by Andrei Voronkov's EasyChair system that I can only recommend to every programme chair. MPC 2006 had one satellite workshop, the Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming, MSFP 2006, organized as a "small" wo- shop of the FP6 IST coordination action TYPES. This took place July 2, 2006.