A Robust Semantics Hides Fewer Errors

  • Authors:
  • Steve Reeves;David Streader

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we explore how formal models are interpreted and to what degree meaning is captured in the formal semantics and to what degree it remains in the informal interpretation of the semantics. By applying a robust approach to the definition of refinement and semantics, favoured by the event-based community, to state-based theory we are able to move some aspects from the informal interpretation into the formal semantics.