Abstract:Formal nonmonotonic reasoning provides a promising basis for meeting the demands inherent in the incomplete, evolving and inconsistent requirements that characterise large-scale industrial software systems. This paper explores formal reasoning in requirements analysis, design and implementation. It indicates how the notion of provability in maximal consistency logics might be used to extend current logical foundations for existing formal notations for specifying requirements. A number of definitions are then d… Show more
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