The feature interaction problem is prominent in telephone service development. Through a number of case studies, we have discovered that no single semantic framework is suitable f...
J. Paul Gibson, Geoff Hamilton, Dominique Mé...
Embedded real-time systems consist of a digital controller interacting with its physical environment. Developing such systems therefore involves specifying and reasoning about bot...
SOFL (Structured-Object-based-Formal Language) is recently proposed to combine the advantagesof formal methods, structured methods and object-oriented methodology into one method ...
Abstract. We report on the notation and tool integration framework developed in the application-oriented research project Espress. The framework is based on a Z core and provides m...
: Some of the shortcomings of using refinement alone as the means of passing from high level simple models to actual detailed implementations are reviewed. Retrenchment is presente...
Abstract. Most array operations in Sac are specified in terms of so-called withloops, a Sac-specific form of array comprehension. Due to the map-like semantics of with-loops its ...
Abstract. We discuss a new optimisation for recursive functions yielding multiple results in tuples for lazy functional languages, like Clean and Haskell. This optimisation improve...