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Strategies for Consistency Checking, the Choice of Unification

Bowman, Howard and Boiten, Eerke Albert and Derrick, John and Steen, Maarten (1996) Strategies for Consistency Checking, the Choice of Unification. Technical report. UKC, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (KAR id:21396)

Abstract

There is increasing interest in models of system development which use multiple viewpoints. Each viewpoint offers a different perspective on the target system and system development involves parallel refinement of the multiple views. Our work particularly focuses on the use of viewpoints in Open Distributed Processing (ODP) which is an ISO/ITU standardisation framework. Multiple viewpoints, though, prompt the issue of consistency between viewpoints. This paper describes an interpretation of consistency which is general enough to meet the requirements of consistency in ODP. Furthermore, the paper investigates strategies for checking this consistency definition. Particular emphasis is placed on mechanisms to obtain global consistency (between an arbitrary number of viewpoints) from a series of binary consistency checks. The consistency checking strategies we develop are illustrated using the formal description technique LOTOS. Keywords: Viewpoints, Consistency, ODP, Formal Description Techniques, LOTOS.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Technical report)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Eerke Boiten
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2009 22:53 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21396 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bowman, Howard.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4736-1869
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Boiten, Eerke Albert.

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Derrick, John.

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Steen, Maarten.

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