Stepwise refinement of distributed systems
Subtitle: models, formalisms, correctness : REX workshop, Mook, the Netherlands, May 29-June 2, 1989 : proceedings
By: J.W. de Bakker, W.-P. de Roever, G. Rozenberg, eds.
Contributors: Bakker, J. W. de 1939-; Roever, W.-P. de, 1943-; Rozenberg, Grzegorz.
Series: Lecture notes in computer science ;; 430
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 808
Subjects: Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Congresses
Description: "The stepwise refinement method postulates a system construction route that starts with a high-level specification, goes through a number of provably correct development steps, and ends with an executable program. The contributions to this volume survey the state of the art in this extremely active research area. The world's leading specialists in concurrent program specification, verification, and the theory of their refinement present latest research results and surveys of the fields. State-based, algebraic, temporal logic oriented and category theory oriented approaches are presented. Special attention is paid to the relationship between compositionality and refinement for distributed programs. Surveys are given of results on refinement in partial-order based approaches to concurrency. A unified treatment is given of the assumption/commitment paradigm in compositional concurrent program specification and verification, and the extension of these to liveness properties. Latest results are presented on specifying and proving concurrent data bases correct, and deriving network protocols from their specifications."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.