The vienna development method (VDM)

Bjørner, Dines

doi:10.1007/3-540-09541-1_33

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“…Some of the more widely known specification languages are CLEAR [8], Iota [43], ACT-ONE [12], SPECIAL [45], Z [l, 481, VDM's Meta-IV [6], Ina Jo [46], Gypsy [16], and PAISLey [55]. Of these, the ones most closely related to ours are CLEAR, Iota, ACT-ONE, and SPECIAL.…”

Section: Specificationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Writing Larch interface language specifications

Wing

1987

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.

101

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Current research in specifications is emphasizing the practical use of formal specifications in program design. One way to encourage their use in practice is to provide specification languages that are accessible to both designers and programmers. With this goal in mind, the Larch family of formal specification languages has evolved to support a two-tiered approach to writing specifications. This approach separates the specification of state transformations and programming language dependencies from the specification of underlying abstractions. Thus, each member of the Larch family has a subset derived from a programming language and another subset independent of any programming languages. We call the former interface languages, and the latter the Larch Shared Language. This paper focuses on Larch interface language specifications. Through examples, we illustrate some salient features of Larch/CLU, a Larch interface language for the programming language CLU. We give an example of writing an interface specification following the two-tiered approach and discuss in detail issues involved in writing interface specifications and their interaction with their Shared Language components.

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Section: Specificationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Writing Larch interface language specifications

Wing

1987

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.

101

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“…The Vienna Development Method [2] is a mature formal method whose origins go back to the IBM Vienna Laboratory in the 1970s. The use of VDM associated languages to specify and guide the development of software has been widely described in the literature [10,11].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…During the design phase, several experiments are performed to assess different design options for Op. A model checker able to automatically generate counterexamples to (2) and thus suggest how to improve Op is welcome. 3.…”

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An Integrated Formal Methods Tool-Chain and Its Application to Verifying a File System Model

Ferreira¹,

Oliveira

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Tool interoperability as a mean to achieve integration is among the main goals of the international Grand Challenge initiative. In the context of the Verifiable file system mini-challenge put forward by Rajeev Joshi and Gerard Holzmann, this paper focuses on the integration of different formal methods and tools in modelling and verifying an abstract file system inspired by the Intel R Flash File System Core. We combine high-level manual specification and proofs with current state of the art mechanical verification tools into a tool-chain which involves Alloy, VDM++ and HOL. The use of (pointfree) relation modelling provides the glue which binds these tools together.

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“…There has been a lot of work in the past on formal specification languages for software engineering [1,18]. But these formalisms did not include any notions of agents and mental attitudes.…”

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Modeling Multiagent Systems with CASL - A Feature Interaction Resolution Application

Shapiro

Lespérance

2001

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper, we describe the Cognitive Agents Specification Language (CASL), and exhibit its characteristics by using it to model the multiagent feature interaction resolution system described by Griffeth and Velthuijsen [7]. We discuss the main features of CASL that make it a useful language for specifying and verifying multiagent systems. CASL has a nice mix of declarative and procedural elements with a formal semantics to facilitate the verification of properties of CASL specifications.

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The vienna development method (VDM)

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Writing Larch interface language specifications

Writing Larch interface language specifications

An Integrated Formal Methods Tool-Chain and Its Application to Verifying a File System Model

Modeling Multiagent Systems with CASL - A Feature Interaction Resolution Application

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