Protective Interface Specifications

Formal Aspects of Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-75

  Leavens, Gary T ^a   Wing, Jeannette M ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Larch; Partiality; Specification languages; Underspecification

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542531521     PISSN: 09345043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00003926     Document Type: Article

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