Programming from specifications (2nd ed.)
Programming from specifications (2nd ed.)
An axiomatic basis for computer programming
Communications of the ACM
Temporal Verification Diagrams
TACS '94 Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software
Visual Verification of Reactive Systems
TACAS '97 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems
Abstract State Machines: A Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis
Abstract State Machines: A Method for High-Level System Design and Analysis
Refinement, Decomposition, and Instantiation of Discrete Models: Application to Event-B
Fundamenta Informaticae - This is a SPECIAL ISSUE ON ASM'05
On the Purpose of Event-B Proof Obligations
ABZ '08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Abstract State Machines, B and Z
Decomposition Structures for Event-B
IFM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods
Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs
Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs
Language and Tool Support for Class and State Machine Refinement in UML-B
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
An open extensible tool environment for event-b
ICFEM'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Augmenting b with control annotations
B'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in B
Justifications for the event-b modelling notation
B'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in B
Creating sequential programs from event-B models
IFM'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Integrated formal methods
Automatic flow analysis for event-B
FASE'11/ETAPS'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering: part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software
Refining nodes and edges of state machines
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
Generating Hierarchical State Based Representation From Event-B Models
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Refinement plans for informed formal design
ABZ'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z
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Event-B does not provide specific support for the modelling of problems that require some structuring, such as, local variables or sequential ordering of events. All variables need to be declared globally and sequential ordering of events can only be achieved by abstract program counters. This has two unfortunate consequences: such models become less comprehensible — we have to infer sequential ordering from the use of program counters; proof obligation generation does not consider ordering — generating too many proof obligations (although these are usually trivially discharged). In this article we propose a method for specifying structured models avoiding, in particular, the use of abstract program counters. It uses a notation that mainly serves to drive proof obligation generation. However, the notation also describes the structure of a model explicitly. A corresponding graphical notation is introduced that visualises the structure of a model.