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ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Behavior-Oriented Commitment-based Protocols
Ever since the seminal work of Searle, two components of interaction protocols have been identified: constitutive rules, defining the meaning of actions and regulative rules, defin...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Elisa Marengo
JOT
2010
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On Differencing Object-Oriented Formal Specifications
Requirements specification is a collaborative activity that involves several developers specifying the requirements elicited through several stakeholders. Operation-base merging a...
Fathi Taibi, Md. Jahangir Alam, Junaidi Abdullah
FUIN
2008
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Nondeterminism in Constructive Z
The abstraction inherent in most specifications and the need to specify nondeterministic programs are two well-known sources of nondeterminism in formal specifications. In this pap...
Hassan Haghighi, Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi
TCS
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Logical systems for structured specifications
We study proof systems for reasoning about logical consequences and refinement of structured specifications, based on similar systems proposed earlier in the literature [ST 88, Wi...
Tomasz Borzyszkowski
TSE
1998
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Inferring Declarative Requirements Specifications from Operational Scenarios
—Scenarios are increasingly recognized as an effective means for eliciting, validating, and documenting software requirements. This paper concentrates on the use of scenarios for...
Axel van Lamsweerde, Laurent Willemet
ASE
1999
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Overlaps in Requirements Engineering
Although overlap between specifications
George Spanoudakis, Anthony Finkelstein, David Til...
INFORMATICALT
2002
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Separation Of Concerns in Multi-language Specifications
Abstract. We present an analysis of the separation of concerns in multi-language design and multilanguage specifications. The basis for our analysis is the paradigm of the multi-di...
Robertas Damasevicius, Vytautas Stuikys
JUCS
2007
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A First Step Mapping IMS Learning Design and Moodle
: Mapping the specification IMS Learning Design and the Course Management System Moodle is a logical step forward on interoperability between eLearning systems and specifications i...
Daniel Burgos, Colin Tattersall, Martin Dougiamas,...
TSE
2008
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Privately Finding Specifications
Buggy software is a reality and automated techniques for discovering bugs are highly desirable. A specification describes the correct behavior of a program. For example, a file mus...
Westley Weimer, Nina Mishra
TAP
2008
Springer
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Vacuity in Testing
Abstract. In recent years, we see a growing awareness to the importance of assessing the quality of specifications. In the context of model checking, this can be done by analyzing ...
Thomas Ball, Orna Kupferman