Overview
- Unique overview of the key current formal specification languages
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series (EATCS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preludium
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Front Matter
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The Languages
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Keywords
About this book
By a specification language we understand a formal system of syntax, semantics and proof rules. The syntax and semantics define a language; the proof rules define a proof system. Specifications are expressions in the language, and reasoning over properties of these specifications is done within the proof system. This book presents comprehensive studies on nine specification languages and their logics of reasoning.
The editors and authors are authorities on these specification languages and their application. Dedicated chapters address: the use of ASM (Abstract State Machines) in the classroom; the Event-B modelling method; a methodological guide to CafeOBJ logic; CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language; the Duration Calculus; the logic of the RAISE specification language (RSL); the specification language TLA+; the typed logic of partial functions and the Vienna Development Method (VDM); and Z logic and its applications. Each chapter is self-contained, with references, and symbol and concept indexes. Finally, in a unique feature, the book closes with short commentaries on the specification languages written by researchers closely associated with their original development.
With extensive references and pointers to future developments, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students engaged with formal specification languages.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logics of Specification Languages
Editors: Dines Bjørner, Martin C. Henson
Series Title: Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74107-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74106-0Published: 07 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09345-6Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74107-7Published: 05 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1431-2654
Series E-ISSN: 2193-2069
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 624
Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Theory of Computation