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- This book is the first comprehensive introduction to refinement for the researcher or graduate student
- Introduces refinement in all the major semantic models
- Shows how different formal methods (Z, CSP, Event-B etc) use different models of refinement
- Shows how these models of refinement are related
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Refinement in Specification Languages
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Front Matter
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Relating Notions of Refinement
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
John Derrick
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School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Eerke Boiten
About the authors
Eerke Boiten has been doing research in formal methods for 30 years, working on topics such as program transformation, viewpoint specification, and in particular: refinement. He has published some 70 refereed journal articles and conference papers as well as a research monograph in this area. In recent years, he has branched out into computer security and privacy, and engages widely on those topics beyond the academic circles. He is currently Professor of Cyber Security at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Refinement
Book Subtitle: Semantics, Languages and Applications
Authors: John Derrick, Eerke Boiten
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92711-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92709-1Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06497-6Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92711-4Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 269
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs