CASL: the common algebraic specification language
Theoretical Computer Science
WADT '01 Selected papers from the 15th International Workshop on Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques
The Common Framework Initiative for Algebraic Specification and Development of Software
PSI '99 Proceedings of the Third International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics
Observational Refinement Process
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Refinement by Interpretation in a General Setting
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
A simple refinement language for CASL
WADT'04 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques
An axiomatic approach to structuring specifications
Theoretical Computer Science
Behavioral validation of JFSL specifications through model synthesis
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Institutional semantics for many-valued logics
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Comorphisms of structured institutions
Information Processing Letters
Parameterisation for abstract structured specifications
Theoretical Computer Science
Răzvan Diaconescu, Institution-independent Model Theory
Studia Logica
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
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This book provides foundations for software specification and formal software development from the perspective of work on algebraic specification, concentrating on developing basic concepts and studying their fundamental properties. These foundations are built on a solid mathematical basis, using elements of universal algebra, category theory and logic, and this mathematical toolbox provides a convenient language for precisely formulating the concepts involved in software specification and development. Once formally defined, these notions become subject to mathematical investigation, and this interplay between mathematics and software engineering yields results that are mathematically interesting, conceptually revealing, and practically useful. The theory presented by the authors has its origins in work on algebraic specifications that started in the early 1970s, and their treatment is comprehensive. This book contains five kinds of material: the requisite mathematical foundations; traditional algebraic specifications; elements of the theory of institutions; formal specification and development; and proof methods. While the book is self-contained, mathematical maturity and familiarity with the problems of software engineering is required; and in the examples that directly relate to programming, the authors assume acquaintance with the concepts of functional programming. The book will be of value to researchers and advanced graduate students in the areas of programming and theoretical computer science.