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Record Nr.

UNISA996466070703316

Titolo

Refinement Techniques in Software Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : First Pernambuco Summer School on Software Engineering, PSSE 2004, Recife, Brazil, November 23-December 5, 2004, Revised Lectures / / edited by Ana Cavalcanti, Augusto Sampaio, Jim Woodcock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006

ISBN

3-540-46254-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 393 p.)

Collana

Programming and Software Engineering ; ; 3167

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Software engineering

Computer programming

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Management information systems

Computer science

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Software Engineering

Programming Techniques

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Management of Computing and Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Refinement: An overview -- Transformation Laws for Sequential Object-Oriented Programming -- Using CSP -- Developing and Reasoning About Probabilistic Programs in pGCL -- Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems -- A Tutorial Introduction to CSP in Unifying Theories of Programming -- Using the Compliance Notation in Industry -- Techniques for Temporal Logic Model Checking.

Sommario/riassunto

The Pernambuco School on Software Engineering (PSSE) 2004 was the ?rst in a series of events devoted to the study of advanced computer science and to the promotion of international scienti?c collaboration. The main theme in 2004 was re?nement (or rei?cation). Re?nement describes the veri?able relationship between a speci?cation and its



implementation; it also describes the process of discoveringappropriateimplementations,givena speci?cation.Thus,in oneway or another, re?nement is at the heart of the programming process, and so is the major daily activity of everyprofessionalsoftwareengineer. The Summer School and its proceedings were intended to give a detailed tutorial introduction to the scienti?c basis of this activity. These proceedings record the contributions from the invited lecturers. Each chapter is the result of a thorough revision of the initial notes provided to the participants of the school. The revision was inspired by the synergy generated by the opportunity for the lecturers to present and discuss their work among themselves, and with the school’s attendees. The editors have tried to produce a coherent view of the topic by harmonizing these contributions, smoothing out di?erences in notation and approach, and providing links between the lectures. We apologize to the authors for any errors introduced by our extensive editing. Although the chapters are linked in severalways, each one is su?ciently se- contained to be read in isolation. Nevertheless, Chap. 1 should be read ?rst by those interested in an introduction to re?nement.