Synthesis of interface specifications for Java classes

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 98-109

  Alur, Rajeev ^a   Madhusudan, P ^a   Černy, Pavol ^a   Nam, Wonhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Behavioral interfaces; Games; Learning regular languages; Model checking; Software components; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; GAME THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LEARNING SYSTEMS; LIBRARIES;

BEHAVIORAL INTERFACES; JAVA CLASSES; MODEL CHECKING; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 29144521934     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1040305.1040314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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