Specification and Development of Interactive Systems
Subtitle: Focus on Streams, Interfaces, and Refinement
By: by Manfred Broy, Ketil Stølen
Contributors: Stølen, Ketil
Series: Monographs in Computer Science; Monographs in computer science
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781461265184; 9781461300915
Subjects: Logic design; Computer science
Description: Today's distributed systems are characterized by interactions, often complex, between many different hardware/software components cooperating and exchanging information. To reduce the complexity of the development of interactive systems, experts employ descriptions, or specifications, of a given system's behavior and/or structure. This book provides a mathematical and logical foundation for the specification and development of interactive systems based on a model that describes systems in terms of their input/output behavior. Based on the model, the authors build a basic method, called FOCUS, that enables interactive systems to be described by characterizing their histories of message interaction. The book progresses from an introduction and guided tour of FOCUS through streams, specifications and their properties, and behavioral, interface, and conditional refinements.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A Guided Tour; title: Basics; title: Streams; title: Specifications; title: Examples; title: Properties of Specifications; title: Equational Specifications; title: Access Control System; title: Tables and Diagrams; title: Abracadabra Protocol; title: A/G-Specifications; title: Memory with Locking; title: Refinement; title: Behavioral Refinement; title: Interface Refinement; title: Conditional Refinement; title: Final Remarks; title: A. Operators for Stream Tuples; title: B. Glossary of Terms; title: C. Bibliography; title: D. Glossary; title: E. Index.