Download or read book Z User Workshop London 1992 written by J.P. Bowen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Z notation has been developed at the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and elsewhere for over a decade. It is now used by industry as part of the software (and hardware) development process in both Europe and the USA. It is currently undergoing BSI standardisation in the UK, and has been proposed for ISO standardisation internationally. In recent years researchers have begun to focus increasingly on the development of techniques and tools to encourage the wider application of Z and other formal methods and notations. This volume contains papers from the Seventh Annual Z User Meeting, held in London in December 1992. In contrast to previous years the meeting concentrated specifically on industrial applications of Z, and a high proportion of the participants came from an industrial background. The theme is well represented by the four invited papers. Three of these discuss ways in which formal methods are being introduced, and the fourth presents an international survey of industrial applications. It also provides a reminder of the improvements which are needed to make these methods an accepted part of software development. In addition the volume contains several submitted papers on the industrial use of Z, two of which discuss the key area of safety-critical applications. There are also a number of papers related to the recently-completed ZIP project. The papers cover all the main areas of the project including methods, tools, and the development of a Z Standard, the first publicly-available version of which was made available at the meeting. Finally the volume contains a select Z bibliography, and section on how to access information on Z through comp.specification.z, the international, computer-based USENET newsgroup. Z User Workshop, London 1992 provides an important overview of current research into industrial applications of Z, and will provide invaluable reading for researchers, postgraduate students and also potential industrial users of Z.
Download or read book Z User Workshop London 1992 written by Jonathan Peter Bowen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Z notation has been developed at the Programming Research Group at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory and elsewhere for over a decade. It is now used by industry as part of the software (and hardware) development process in both Europe and the USA. It is currently undergoing BSI standardisation in the UK, and has been proposed for ISO standardisation internationally. In recent years researchers have begun to focus increasingly on the development of techniques and tools to encourage the wider application of Z and other formal methods and notations. This volume contains papers from the Seventh Annual Z User Meeting, held in London in December 1992. In contrast to previous years the meeting concentrated specifically on industrial applications of Z, and a high proportion of the participants came from an industrial background. The theme is well represented by the four invited papers. Three of these discuss ways in which formal methods are being introduced, and the fourth presents an international survey of industrial applications. It also provides a reminder of the improvements which are needed to make these methods an accepted part of software development. In addition the volume contains several submitted papers on the industrial use of Z, two of which discuss the key area of safety-critical applications. There are also a number of papers related to the recently-completed ZIP project. The papers cover all the main areas of the project including methods, tools, and the development of a Z Standard, the first publicly-available version of which was made available at the meeting. Finally the volume contains a select Z bibliography, and section on how to access information on Z through comp.specification.z, the international, computer-based USENET newsgroup. Z User Workshop, London 1992 provides an important overview of current research into industrial applications of Z, and will provide invaluable reading for researchers, postgraduate students and also potential industrial users of Z.
Download or read book Z User Workshop Cambridge 1994 written by J.P. Bowen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers from the Eighth Z User Meeting, to be held at the University of Cambridge from 29 - 30 June 1994. The papers cover a wide range of issues associated with Z and formal methods, with particular reference to practical application. These issues include education, standards, tool support, and interaction with other design paradigms such as consideration of real-time and object-oriented approaches to development. Among the actual topics covered are: the formal specification in Z of Defence Standard 00-56; formal specification of telephone features; specifying and interpreting class hierarchies in Z; and software quality assurance using the SAZ method. Z User Workshop, Cambridge 1994 provides an important overview of current research into industrial applications of Z, and will provide invaluable reading for researchers, postgraduate students and also potential industrial users of Z.
Download or read book Multi Agent Systems and Applications III written by Vladimir Marik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Central and European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2003. The 58 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal methods, social knowledge and meta-reasoning, negotiation, and policies, ontologies and languages, planning, coalitions, evolution and emergent behaviour, platforms, protocols, security, real-time and synchronization, industrial applications, e-business and virtual enterprises, and Web and mobile agents.
Download or read book Formal Methods for Open Object Based Distributed Systems written by Paolo Ciancarini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems presents the leading edge in several related fields, specifically object-orientated programming, open distributed systems and formal methods for object-oriented systems. With increased support within industry regarding these areas, this book captures the most up-to-date information on the subject. Many topics are discussed, including the following important areas: object-oriented design and programming; formal specification of distributed systems; open distributed platforms; types, interfaces and behaviour; formalisation of object-oriented methods. This volume comprises the proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS), sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) which was held in Florence, Italy, in February 1999. Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses in computer science and telecommunications, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.
Download or read book Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology AMAST 91 written by M. Nivat and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persistent Object Systems written by David Maier and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-03-21 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems, held in Tarascon, Provence, France, from 5-9 September 1994. As in previous years, the workshop addressed the issue of how to support the implementation of very long-lived systems. Among the specific topics discussed were: how to build, maintain, and operate large persistent applications; how to measure and analyse existing systems in order to improve the quality of persistent software engineering; and how to present and provide a full range of object store functions, such as concurrency, transactions, and recovery. The resulting volume will provide essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in software engineering and programming languages.
Download or read book Z User Workshop York 1991 written by J. E. Nicholls and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ordinary mathematics, an equation can be written down which is syntactically correct, but for which no solution exists. For example, consider the equation x = x + 1 defined over the real numbers; there is no value of x which satisfies it. Similarly it is possible to specify objects using the formal specification language Z [3,4], which can not possibly exist. Such specifications are called inconsistent and can arise in a number of ways. Example 1 The following Z specification of a functionf, from integers to integers "f x : ~ 1 x ~ O· fx = x + 1 (i) "f x : ~ 1 x ~ O· fx = x + 2 (ii) is inconsistent, because axiom (i) gives f 0 = 1, while axiom (ii) gives f 0 = 2. This contradicts the fact that f was declared as a function, that is, f must have a unique result when applied to an argument. Hence no suchfexists. Furthermore, iff 0 = 1 andfO = 2 then 1 = 2 can be deduced! From 1 = 2 anything can be deduced, thus showing the danger of an inconsistent specification. Note that all examples and proofs start with the word Example or Proof and end with the symbol.1.
Download or read book Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theory and Formal Methods 1993 written by Geoffrey Burn and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory and Formal Methods Section of the Imperial College Department of Computing has an international reputation for research into the foundations of computer science, and the application of this theory to real computing problems. In March 1993 it held the first in a proposed series of workshops on theory and formal methods at the Isle of Thorns Conference Centre in Sussex, UK. Almost every member of the section contributed to the workshop, thereby providing comprehensive coverage of the work being done by this important research group. This volume contains revised versions of the papers presented at the workshop. They cover four main areas - semantics, concurrency, logic, and specification - with some papers spanning a variety of disciplines. The papers fall into two main categories: review papers which provide the reader with a good introduction to some of the specific areas being studied by the section, and research papers which give details of the latest results in these areas.
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Download or read book Interfaces to Database Systems IDS92 written by Richard Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formal Methods in Databases and Software Engineering written by V.S. Alagar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic and object-orientation have come to be recognized as being among the most powerful paradigms for modeling information systems. The term "information systems" is used here in a very general context to denote database systems, software development systems, knowledge base systems, proof support systems, distributed systems and reactive systems. One of the most vigorously researched topics common to all information systems is "formal modeling". An elegant high-level abstraction applicable to both application domain and system domain concepts will always lead to a system design from "outside in"; that is, the aggregation of ideas is around real-life objects about which the system is to be designed. Formal methods \yhen applied with this view in mind, especially during early stages of system development, can lead to a formal reasoning on the intended properties, thus revealing system flaws that might otherwise be discovered much later. Logic in different styles and semantics is being used to model databases and their transactions; it is also used to specify concurrent, distributed, real-time, and reactive systems. ,The notion of "object" is central to the modeling of object oriented databases, as well as object-oriented design and programs in software engineering. Both database and software engineering communities have undoubtedly made important contributions to formalisms based on logic and objects. It is worthwhile bringing together the ideas developed by the two communities in isolation, and focusing on integrating their common strengths.
Download or read book Database Programming Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Advances in Temporal Databases written by James Clifford and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers presented at the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, held in Zurich, Switzerland, from 17-18 September 1995. The papers cover a wide range of topics from the highly theoretical through to reports on how temporal data bases can be used to solve real problems. In addition to the technical papers, there are also summaries of two panel discussions which assess the recently-completed TSQL2 Language Design, and examine the need for additional research into the development of TSQL3. Together these papers provide a comprehensive overview of the latest research work into the area of temporal databases. They will provide invaluable reading for researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners.
Download or read book Structures in Concurrency Theory written by Jörg Desel and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest volume in the Workshops in Computing series, and contains the papers presented at the International Workshop on Structures in Concurrency Theory (STRICT), held in Berlin, from 11 - 13 May 1995. Concurrency theory deals with formal aspects of concurrent systems. It uses partly competing and partly complementary formalisms and structures. This workshop was jointly organised by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the ESPRIT Basic Research Working Group CALIBAN. CALIBAN and its predecessor DEMON are ESPRIT Basic Research projects with the aim of developing design methodologies based on causal models such as Petri nets. The workshop marked the third year of the project, and surveyed the results of CALIBAN and DEMON since 1989.
