A formally grounded software specification method

Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 52-86

  Choppy, Christine ^a   Reggio, Gianna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algebraic logical specification; Casl; Casl Ltl; Formal specification; Specification method; Visual notation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; SEMANTICS;

ALGEBRAIC-LOGICAL SPECIFICATION; CASL; CASL-LTL; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; SPECIFICATION METHOD; VISUAL NOTATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33644637201     PISSN: 15678326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlap.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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