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BIRTHDAY
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Enhancing the tractability of rely/guarantee specifications in the development of interfering operations
Various forms of assumption/commitment specifications have been used to specify and reason about the interference that comes from concurrent execution; in particular, consistent a...
Pierre Collette, Cliff B. Jones
POLICY
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Goal-based Approach to Policy Refinement
As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
ENTCS
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Refactoring in maintenance and development of Z specifications
Once you have proved your refinement correct, that is not the end. Real products, and their accompanying specifications, develop over time, with new improved versions having added...
Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack, Ian Toyn
PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Open Systems in TLA
We describe a method for writing assumption/guarantee specifications of concurrent systems. We also provide a proof rule for reasoning about the composition of these systems. Spec...
Martín Abadi, Leslie Lamport
ARTS
1999
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Proof Assistance for Real-Time Systems Using an Interactive Theorem Prover
This paper discusses the adaptation of the PVS theorem prover for performing analysis of real-time systems written in the ASTRAL formal specification language. A number of issues w...
Paul Z. Kolano