Models of software systems are built in Z and VDM using partial functions between sets and certain operations on these partial functions : extension ( ), restriction ( ), removal ...
Rewriting logic is a flexible and expressive logical framework that unifies algebraic denotational semantics and structural operational semantics (SOS) in a novel way, avoiding th...
Model composition helps designers managing complexities by modeling different system views separately, and later compose them into an integrated model. In the past years, researche...
Abstract. It has often been observed that a point-free style of programvides a more abstract view on programs. We aim to use the gain in abstraction to obtain a denotational semant...
abstractions to focus on principle issues and impose structure - Model behaviour - Determine correctness - Recursive equational axiomatisations with precise semantics yet algorithm...