Download or read book ANNA A Language for Annotating Ada Programs written by David C. Luckham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-07-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference manual of ANNA is another volume addressed to the ADA community. ANNA is a language extension of ADA to include facilities for formally specifying the intended behavior of ADA programs. It is designed to meet a perceived need to augment ADA with precise machine-processable annotations so that well established formal methods of specification and documentation can be applied to ADA programs. The current ANNA design includes annotations of all ADA constructs except tasking. Similar extensions for formal specification can be made to other Algol-like languages such as Pascal, PL/1, Concurrent Pascal, and Modula; essentially, these extensions would be subsets of ANNA. The design of ANNA was undertaken from the beginning with four principal considerations: 1. Constructing annotations should be easy for the ADA programmer and should depend as much as possible on notation and concepts of ADA. 2. ANNA should possess language features that are widely used in the specification and documentation of programs. 3. ANNA should provide a framework within which the various established theories of formally specifying programs may be applied to ADA. 4. Annotations should be equally well suited for different possible applications during the life cycle of a program. Such applications include not only testing, debugging and formal verification of a finished program, but also specification of program parts during the earlier stages of requirements analysis and program design.

Download or read book Anna a Language for Annotating ADA Programs written by David C. Luckham and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anna a Language for Annotating Ada Programs written by David C. Luckham and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Programming with Specifications written by David Luckham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics • what this book is about, • its intended audience, • what the reader ought to know, • how the book is organized, • acknowledgements. Specifications express information about a program that is not normally part of the program, and often cannot be expressed in a programming lan guage. In the past, the word "specification" has sometimes been used to refer to somewhat vague documentation written in English. But today it indicates a precise statement, written in a machine processable language, about the purpose and behavior of a program. Specifications are written in languages that are just as precise as programming languages, but have additional capabilities that increase their power of expression. The termi nology formal specification is sometimes used to emphasize the modern meaning. For us, all specifications are formal. The use of specifications as an integral part of a program opens up a whole new area of programming - progmmming with specifications. This book describes how to use specifications in the process of building programs, debugging them, and interfacing them with other programs. It deals with a new trend in programming - the evolution of specification languages from the current generation of programming languages. And it describes new strategies and styles of programming that utilize specifications. The trend is just beginning, and the reader, having finished this book, will viii Preface certainly see that there is much yet to be done and to be discovered about programming with specifications.

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Download or read book Anna a Language for Annotating Ada Programs Preliminary Reference Manual written by Stanford University. Computer Systems Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANNA is a proposed language extension of Ada to include facilities for formally specifying the intended behavior of Ada programs (or portions thereof) at all stages of program development. Anna programs are Ada programs extended by formal comments. Formal comments in ANNA consist of virtual Ada text and annotations. Anna provides annotations for all Ada constructs, including declarative annotations (for variables, subtypes, subprograms, and packages), statement annotations, annotations of generic units, exception annotations and visibility annotations. (The current Anna design does not include extensions for annotating Ada multi-tasking constructs.) Anna also includes a small number of new predefined attributes, which may appear only in annotations, e.g. the collection attribute of an access type. Since all Anna extensions appear as Ada comments, Anna programs are also legal Ada programs and acceptable by Ada translators. The semantics of annotations are defined in terms of Ada concepts; in particular, many kinds of annotations are generalizations of the Ada constraint concept. This simplifies the training of Ada programmers to use Anna for formal specification of Ada programs. Anna provides a formal framework within which different theories of formal specification may be applied to Ada. This manual also describes a translation of annotations into Ada text for run-time check of consistency with annotations.

Download or read book Annotation Language Design for Ada ANNA written by D. C. Luckham and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interim report covers research work on Annotation language design for ADA. The major goal of this research was the design and development of programming tools that may be incorporated into an Aa Programming Support Environment during the mid-1980's time frame. Since Ada is a very advanced language containing many essential new features such as tasking, and standard Ada tools such as compilers do not yet exist, the research has been structured so as to approach the major goal by first studying the error detection problem for subsets of Ada corresponding to already highly used languages such as Pascal. The error detection problem as an important starting point because this attempts to analyse programs for common errors without assuming that the programs have accompanying annotations. At the start of this project no formal annotation language for Ada existed. The second phase of the research effort was to design an annotation language for Ada, called ANNA. This would provide a basis for verification of Ada programs in general. This second report deals with the work on the design of ANNA.

Download or read book The Application of ANNA ANNotated Ada and Formal Methods as an Ada Program Design Language written by C. M. Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of its support for the introduction of Ada* technology into Air Force projects, the MITRE Software Center began an investigation into how Ada could be used as a Program Design Language (PDL) within the framework of the software development process called for in DOD-STD-2167 and its associated Data Item Descriptions (DIDs). This investigation also looked into the use of formal software development methods within an Ada PDL. The investigation took the form of a model design methods within Micro Interactive Monitor System (MIMSY). Project documentation and two preliminary designs were produced. These designs used a combination of Buhr's diagram notations and Luckham's ANNotated Ada (ANNA) language and Task Sequencing Language (TSL) as the program design languages. This report summarizes the work performed and the lessons learned about Ada PDLSs, ANNA, TSL and formal methods. (Author).

Download or read book Rationale for the Design of the Ada Programming Language written by J. Ichbiah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the rationale behind the design and development of the programming language Ada. The materials incorporating corrections to its original printing by the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), will be essential reading for all those currently using the language as well as those considering its adoption.

Download or read book Automated and Algorithmic Debugging written by Peter A. Fritzson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-11-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debugging has always been a costly part of software development, and many attempts have been made to provide automatic computer support for this task.Automated debugging has seen major develoments over the last decade. Onesuccessful development is algorithmic debugging, which originated in logic programming but was later generalized to concurrent, imperative, and lazy functional languages. Important advances have also been made in knowledge-based program debugging, and in approaches to automated debugging based on static and dynamic program slicing based on dataflow and dependence analysis technology. This is the first collected volume of papers on automated debugging and presents latest developments, tutorial papers, and surveys.

Download or read book System Development and Ada written by A. Nico Habermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-09-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of papers published in this book was initially presented at the Workshop on Software Factories and Ada, held on Capri, May 26-30, 1986. The subject of the book is software development environments. Software development is treated from three viewpoints: methodologies, language issues and mechanisms. Of particular interest are the discussions of automation of the development process and the formalization of software development specifications. Several new methodologies are described, many of which are available on the commercial market. New is in particular the formalization of the design and development process. Interesting ideas are presented on planning the design process and on supporting project management by formal tools. The reader will find a variety of interesting methodologies and mechanisms that are operational. The book is suitable for readers interested in knowing in which direction programming environment research is moving.

Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics written by Michael Main and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-03-09 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics held at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-10, 1987. The 1st Workshop was at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas in April, 1985 (see LNCS 239), and the 2nd Workshop with a limited number of participants was at Kansas State in April, 1986. It was the intention of the organizers that the 3rd Workshop survey as many areas of the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics as reasonably possible. The Workshop attracted 49 submitted papers, from which 28 papers were chosen for presentation. The papers ranged in subject from category theory and Lambda-calculus to the structure theory of domains and power domains, to implementation issues surrounding semantics.

Download or read book Ada written by L. Collingbourne and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports about recent developments of ADA, especially in the UK. It contains an introduction to ADA 9X and reports about the improved support for object-oriented programming and the tasking model. It also discusses high-integrity applications, safety critical software development and the mapping of ADA projects on the 2157A standard.

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Download or read book Esprit 89 written by CEC, DG for Telecommunications and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6th ESPRIT Conference is being held in Brussels from the 27th November to the 1 st December 1989. Well over 1500 participants from all over Europe are expected to attend the various events during the week. The Conference will offer the opportunity to be updated on the results of ongoing Esprit projects and to develop Europe-wide contacts with colleagues, both within a specific branch of Information Technology and across different branches. The first three days of the week are devoted to presentations of Esprit I projects, structured into plenary and parallel sessions; this year there is special emphasis on panels and workshops where participants can exchange ideas and hold in-depth discussions on specific topics. The different areas of Esprit work are covered: Microelectronics, Informa tion Processing Systems, Office and Business Systems, Computer Integrated Manufac turing, Basic Research and different aspects of the Information Exchange System. During the IT Forum on Thursday 30th November, major European industrial and political decision-makers will address the audience in the morning. In the afternoon, different aspects of Technology Transfer will be discussed with the participation of outside experts, and presentations on the future plans for community R&D in IT will take place.

Download or read book Semantics of Specification Languages SoSL written by Derek J. Andrews and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SoSL was the first International Workshop on Semantics of Specification Languages, held from 25-27 October 1993 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The workshop was organized by the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University with financial support from the Nationale Faciliteit Informatica of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), and under the auspices of the British Computer Society'S specialist group in Formal Aspects of Computing Science (BCS FACS). The concern of the workshop was the semantics of specification languages, and the issues closely related to this area, such as type checking and the justification of proof rules and proof obligations. Its aim was the exchange of problems and ideas in this field of formal methods, and the identification of common programs of work for further investigation. The program of SoSL consisted of 3 invited lectures presenting the developments of the semantics of 3 major specification languages. Furthermore, there were 16 presentations of submitted papers. This volume provides a direct account of the workshop. It contains 3 papers that match the invited lectures and the 16 selected papers. The editors want to thank all those who have contributed to the workshop; the Program Committee and the referees for selecting the contributed papers, the invited speakers for their interesting talks, the Organizing Committee for all their efforts, and of course the participants. We have the feeling that the workshop was worthwhile and should be repeated.