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ZB 2003: ZB 2003: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B pp 58–78Cite as

Composing Specifications Using Communication

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This paper develops a case study using the process algebra CSP to enable controlled interaction between B machines. This illustrates how B machines are essential components within a combined communicating system. The development steps used to build the case study are new: they are applications of theoretical results which allow us to focus on the external interface of a combined communicating system, compositionally verify it, and show that it is a refinement of a more abstract specification described in CSP. This allows safety and liveness properties to be established for combinations of communicating B machines.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

    Helen Treharne, Steve Schneider & Marchia Bramble

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  1. Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, CNRS, 681, rue de la Passerelle, BP 72, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Heres Cedex, France

    Didier Bert

  2. CISM, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA, UK

    Jonathan P. Bowen

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

    Steve King

  4. Department of Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Lemminkäineng. 14 A, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Marina Waldén

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Treharne, H., Schneider, S., Bramble, M. (2003). Composing Specifications Using Communication. In: Bert, D., Bowen, J.P., King, S., Waldén, M. (eds) ZB 2003: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B. ZB 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44880-2_5

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