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Structuring Real-Time Object-Z Specifications

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This paper presents a means of structuring specifications in real-time Object-Z: an integration of Object-Z with the timed refinement calculus. Incremental modification of classes using inheritance and composition of classes to form multi-component systems are examined. Two approaches to the latter are considered: using Object-Z’s notion of object instantiation and introducing a parallel composition operator similar to those found in process algebras. The parallel composition ope- rator approach is both more concise and allows more general modelling of concurrency. Its incorporation into the existing semantics of real-time Object-Z is presented.

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  1. Software Verification Research Centre, Australia

    Graeme Smith

  2. School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia

    Ian Hayes

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  1. Sekr.FR 5-13 bzw.5-6, TU Berlin, Franklinstr.28-29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Grieskamp  & Thomas Santen  & 

  2. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK

    Bill Stoddart

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Smith, G., Hayes, I. (2000). Structuring Real-Time Object-Z Specifications. In: Grieskamp, W., Santen, T., Stoddart, B. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40911-4_7

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