Refinement: Semantics, Languages and Applications
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 11020
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-92711-4
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783319927091
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Refinement has been defined and studied extensively for many formal notations, including for Z and Object-Z in the authors’ 2001/2014 textbook. Entire research communities (such as “integrated formal methods”) are based on the idea that state-based (e.g. Z) and behavioural refinement (e.g. process algebra) are incomparable and require mixed formalisms. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive alternative narrative which synthesizes these ideas into a single approach. Both approaches are introduced from first principles, and gradually extended into a synthesis that provides new insightful semantic explanations for existing specification paradigms as well as a combined novel semantic basis.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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