Structured specifications and implementation of nondeterministic data types:

Abstract: "The use of nondeterminism in specifications, as distinct from underspecification, is motivated by an example in the context of data refinement. A simple formalism for specifying nondeterministic data types is introduced. Its semantics is given in terms of the existing formalisms of r...

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Main Authors: Walicki, Michał (Author), Broy, Manfred 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: München 1995
Series:Technische Universität <München>: TUM-I 9442
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Summary:Abstract: "The use of nondeterminism in specifications, as distinct from underspecification, is motivated by an example in the context of data refinement. A simple formalism for specifying nondeterministic data types is introduced. Its semantics is given in terms of the existing formalisms of relations, multialgebras, sets of functions and oracles by means of appropriate translation rules. Nondeterministic data refinement is studied from the syntactic and semantic perspective, and the correctness of the suggested proof obligations is proved. More general, the implementation relation and parameterisation of nondeterministic data types are discussed and the standard theorems of vertical and horizontal composition are generalized to the nondeterministic case."
Physical Description:28 S.

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