Specification, refinement and verification of concurrent systems - An integration of Object-Z and CSP

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-284

  Smith, Graeme ^a   Derrick, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrency; CSP; Object Z; Refinement; Specification; Verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

CONCURRENT SYSTEMS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035340968     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011269103179     Document Type: Article

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