Abstract. Retrenchment is a flexible model evolution formalism that arose as a reaction to the limitations imposed by refinement, and for which the proof obligations feature additi...
In this paper we discuss how mutual influences (e.g. conflicts) of different stakeholder concerns can be detected and reasoned about through composition and stepwise refinement. S...
Protocol conversion deals with the automatic synthesis of an additional component, often referred to as an adaptor or a converter, to bridge mismatches between interacting compone...
Partha S. Roop, Alain Girault, Roopak Sinha, Grego...
We propose a refinement approach to language emptiness, which is based on the enumeration and the successive refinements of SCCs on over-approximations of the exact system. Our alg...
Chao Wang, Roderick Bloem, Gary D. Hachtel, Kavita...
Abstract. We consider the problem of refinement checking for asynchronous processes where refinement corresponds to stutter-closed language inclusion. Since an efficient algorithmi...