model-oriented proof methods and their comparison /
First Statement of Responsibility
Willem-Paul de Roever, Kai Engelhardt ; with the assistance of Karl-Heinz Buth [and others]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xi, 423 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s)
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge tracts in theoretical computer science ;
Volume Designation
47.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the important and highly applicable method of data refinement and the simulation methods used for proving its correctness. The authors concentrate in the first part on the general principles needed to prove data refinement correct. They begin with an explanation of the fundamental notions, showing that data refinement proofs reduce to proving simulation. The book's second part contains a detailed survey of important methods in this field, which are carefully analysed, and shown to be either incomplete, with counterexamples to their application, or to be always applicable whenever data refinement holds. This is shown by proving, for the first time, that all these methods can be described and analysed in terms of two simple notions: forward and backward simulation. The book is self-contained, going from advanced undergraduate level and taking the reader to the state of the art in methods for proving simulation.