CRefine: Support for the Circus refinement calculus

Proceedings - 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 281-290

  Oliveira, M V M ^a   Gurgel, A C ^a   Castro, C G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FUNCTIONS; MODEL CHECKING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS; CASE STUDIES; CIRCUS SPECIFICATIONS; COMMAND LANGUAGES; CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; DIJKSTRA; REFINEMENT CALCULUSES; REFINEMENT THEORIES; TOOL SUPPORTS;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 58049189975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEFM.2008.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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