Compositional refinement of interactive systems.

We introduce a method to describe systems and their components by functional specification techniques. We define notions of interface and interaction refinement for interactive systems and their components. These notions of refinement allow us to change both the syntactic (the number of channels and...

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Publicado en:	Journal of the ACM 44, 6 (1997).
Autor Principal:	Broy, Manfred
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Processor architectures. Multiple Data Stream Architectures (Multiprocessors). Parallel processors. Software. Programming techniques. Software engineering. Requirements/Specifications. Methodologies (e.g., object-oriented, structured). Design. Methodologies. Theory of Computation. Logics and meanings of programs. Specifying and Verifying and Reasoning about Programs. Specification techniques. Verification.