This paper argues that basing the semantics of concurrent systems on the notions of state and state transitions is neither advisable nor necessary. The tendency to do this is deepl...
Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can poten...
Conventional specifications for object-oriented (OO) programs must adhere to behavioral subtyping in support of class inheritance and method overriding. However, this requirement ...
Wei-Ngan Chin, Cristina David, Huu Hai Nguyen, She...
Abstract. Operating-system verification gains increasing research interest. The complexity of such systems is, however, challenging and many endeavors are limited in some respect: ...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu