Faithful translations among models and specifications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2021 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 419-434

  Katz, Shmuel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DESIGN NOTATIONS; FORMAL METHODS TOOLS; GENERAL TRANSLATION; KEY ISSUES; MODEL DESCRIPTION; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SYNTACTIC TRANSFORMATIONS; TARGET MODEL;

FORMAL SPECIFICATION; FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 84881134565     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45251-6_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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