Systematic software development using VDM (2nd ed.)
Systematic software development using VDM (2nd ed.)
Programming from specifications
Programming from specifications
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics
Automated Theory Formation in Pure Mathematics
The Use of Planning Critics in Mechanizing Inductive Proofs
LPAR '92 Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning
Refinement patterns for rapid development of dependable systems
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Engineering fault tolerant systems
An incremental development of the Mondex system in Event-B
Formal Aspects of Computing
Using Design Patterns in Formal Methods: An Event-B Approach
Proceedings of the 5th international colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
BART: A Tool for Automatic Refinement
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
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering
Applying Event-B atomicity decomposition to a multi media protocol
FMCO'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Formal methods for components and objects
Applying atomicity and model decomposition to a space craft system in event-B
NFM'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on NASA 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
Reasoned modelling critics: turning failed proofs into modelling guidance
ABZ'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B and Z
Structured event-b models and proofs
ABZ'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B and Z
Reasoned modelling critics: Turning failed proofs into modelling guidance
Science of Computer Programming
Safety-critical Java programs from Circus models
Real-Time Systems
European collaboration on automated reasoning
AI Communications - ECAI 2012 Turing and Anniversary Track
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Refinement is a powerful technique for tackling the complexities that arise when formally modelling systems. Here we focus on a posit-and-prove style of refinement, and specifically where a user requires guidance in order to overcome a failed refinement step. We take an integrated approach --- combining the complementary strengths of top-down planning and bottom-up theory formation. In this paper we focus mainly on the planning perspective. Specifically, we propose a new technique called refinement plans which combines both modelling and reasoning perspectives. When a refinement step fails, refinement plans provide a basis for automatically generating modelling guidance by abstracting away from the details of low-level proof failures. The refinement plans described here are currently being implemented for the Event-B modelling formalism, and have been assessed on paper using case studies drawn from the literature. Longer-term, our aim is to identify refinement plans that are applicable to a range of modelling formalisms.