Translating structured database schemas into abstract machines

  • Authors:
  • Brian Matthews;Elvira Locuratolo

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OXON, U.K;Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IW-FM'98 Proceedings of the 2nd Irish conference on Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

ASSO is a formal methodology for developing database applications based on B. Within ASSO, conceptual and logical descriptions of databases are linked through a formal relation to break down a database design into simpler components. We propose a systematic translation from ASSO schemas into B-machines establishing a formal relationships between them. This permits the formal semantics of ASSO to be explored using B, and also allows existing B tools to be used as a basis for the construction of ASSO tools.