Composition of LOTOS specifications

Steen, Maarten and Bowman, Howard and Derrick, John (1995) Composition of LOTOS specifications. In: UNSPECIFIED. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

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Abstract

Usually formal methods adopt the traditional waterfall model of system design. New design methodologies, such as Open Distributed Processing and Object Oriented Design, allow for incremental and partial specification. In order to support such design methods, the issues of consistency between specifications and composition of (partial) specification become vital. This paper presents a general framework for dealing with partial specification, which is instantiated for the specification language LOTOS. Necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency to hold between LOTOS specifications are given, and an operational semantics for composition is proposed. Keywords: LOTOS, formal methods, consistency, composition, incremetal specification, refinement.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED)
Uncontrolled keywords:	LOTOS, viewpoints, consistency
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Sciences > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group Faculties > Sciences > School of Computing > Systems Architecture Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2009 18:15 UTC
Last Modified:	12 May 2014 14:55 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21289 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)