Ebook: Logics of Specification Languages

"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. With extensive references and pointers to future developments, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students engaged with formal specification languages."--Jacket. Read more... An Overview / Dines Bjørner and Martin C. Henson -- Abstract State Machines for the classroom / Wolfgang Reisig -- The event-B modelling method: concepts and case studies / Dominique Cansell and Dominique Méry -- A methodological guide to the CafeOBJ logic / Răzvan Diaconescu -- CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language / T. Mossakowski, A. Haxthausen, D. Sannella and A. Tarlecki -- Duration calculus / Michael R. Hansen -- The logic of the RAISE specification language / Chris George and Anne E. Haxthausen -- The specification language TLA+ / Stephan Merz -- The typoed logic of partial functions and the Vienna development method / John S. Fitzgerald -- Z logic and its applications / M.C. Henson, M. Deutsch and S. Reeves -- Reviews / Dines Bjørner and Martin C. Henson

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"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. With extensive references and pointers to future developments, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students engaged with formal specification languages."--Jacket. Read more... An Overview / Dines Bjørner and Martin C. Henson -- Abstract State Machines for the classroom / Wolfgang Reisig -- The event-B modelling method: concepts and case studies / Dominique Cansell and Dominique Méry -- A methodological guide to the CafeOBJ logic / Răzvan Diaconescu -- CASL, the Common Algebraic Specification Language / T. Mossakowski, A. Haxthausen, D. Sannella and A. Tarlecki -- Duration calculus / Michael R. Hansen -- The logic of the RAISE specification language / Chris George and Anne E. Haxthausen -- The specification language TLA+ / Stephan Merz -- The typoed logic of partial functions and the Vienna development method / John S. Fitzgerald -- Z logic and its applications / M.C. Henson, M. Deutsch and S. Reeves -- Reviews / Dines Bjørner and Martin C. Henson