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CASL Reference Manual

The Complete Documentation of the Common Algebraic Specification Language

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2960)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
  2. Casl Summary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Casl Summary

      • Peter D. Mosses
      Pages 3-69
  3. Casl Syntax

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Casl Syntax

      • Peter D. Mosses
      Pages 73-112
  4. Casl Semantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Casl Semantics

      • Peter D. Mosses
      Pages 115-271
  5. Casl Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
    2. Casl Logic

      • Peter D. Mosses
      Pages 275-359
  6. Casl Libraries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 361-361
    2. Casl Libraries

      • Peter D. Mosses
      Pages 363-466
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 467-530

About this book

CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language, was designed by the members of CoFI, the Common Framework Initiative for algebraic specification and development, and is a general-purpose language for practical use in software development for specifying both requirements and design. CASL is already regarded as a de facto standard, and various sublanguages and extensions are available for specific tasks.

This reference manual presents a detailed documentation of the CASL specification formalism. It reviews the main underlying concepts, and carefully summarizes the intended meaning of each construct of CASL. The book formally defines both the syntax and semantics of CASL, and presents a logic for reasoning about CASL specifications. Furthermore, extensive libraries of CASL specifications of basic data types are provided as well as a comprehensive annotated bibliography of CoFI publications.

As a separate, complementary book LNCS 2900 presents a tutorial introduction to CASL, the CASL User Manual.

Keywords

  • algebra
  • algebraic specification
  • common algebraic specification language
  • design
  • development
  • documentation
  • formal methods
  • language
  • logic
  • semantics
  • software
  • software development
  • specification languages
  • systems design
  • user manual

Editors and Affiliations

  • BRICS and Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Peter D. Mosses

Bibliographic Information

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