5th Refinement Workshop: Proceedings of the 5th Refinement Workshop, organised by BCS-FACS, London, 8–10 January 1992 (Workshops in Computing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540197524 ISBN 13: 9783540197522

Publisher: Springer, 1992

Synopsis

Refinement is the term used to describe systematic and formal methods of specifying hard- and software and transforming the specifications into designs and implementations. The value of formal methods in producing reliable hard- and software is widely appreciated by academics and workers in industry, despite the fact that certain research areas, such as the application to industrial-scale problems, are still in their infancy. This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th Refinement Workshop held in London, 8-10 January 1992. Its theme was the theory and practice of software specifications, which is the transformation of formal software specifications into more correct specifications, designs and codes. This has been an important area of research for the last 5 years and the workshop addressed specific issues and problems related to it. Among the topics discussed in this volume are: the role of refinement in software development, parallel designs and implementations, methods and tools for verification of critical properties, refinement and confidentiality, concurrent processes as objects, the compliance of Ada programs with Z specifications and a tactic driven refinement tool. This is the latest refinement workshop proceedings to be published in the Workshops in Computing series (the 3rd and 4th workshops having appeared in 1990 and 1991 respectively). It will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers, postgraduate students and research-oriented developers in the computer industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540197524
• ISBN 13: 9783540197522
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 389
• Editor: Jones Cliff B., Shaw Roger C., Denvir Tim