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A specification may allow several output histories for the same input history. This is known as underspecification. Behavioral refinement is used to reduce the number of possible output histories for a given input history. Behavioral refinement does not allow output histories to be added; nor does it allow modifications to the syntactic interface. Thus, behavioral refinement characterizes what it means to reduce underspecification.
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Broy, M., Stølen, K. (2001). Interface Refinement. In: Specification and Development of Interactive Systems. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0091-5_16
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