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A Graphical Tool for Event Refinement Structures in Event-B

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Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z (ABZ 2016)

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The Event Refinement Structures (ERS) approach provides a graphical extension of the Event-B formal method to represent event decomposition and control-flow explicitly. In this paper we present an improved version of the ERS plug-in, which provides a graphical environment for the ERS approach within the Event-B tool, Rodin. The improved ERS plug-in is based on the available frameworks that are developed to support Event-B with an EMF framework, language extensions and generic diagram extensions.

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  1. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Dana Dghaym, Michael Butler & Asieh Salehi Fathabadi

  2. Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

    Matheus Garay Trindade

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  1. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Michael Butler

  2. Software Competence Center, Hagenberg, Austria

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  3. Software Competence Center, Hagenberg, Austria

    Atif Mashkoor

  4. Software Competence Center, Hagenberg, Austria

    Miklos Biro

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Dghaym, D., Trindade, M.G., Butler, M., Fathabadi, A.S. (2016). A Graphical Tool for Event Refinement Structures in Event-B. In: Butler, M., Schewe, KD., Mashkoor, A., Biro, M. (eds) Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9675. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33600-8_20

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