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Class Refinement

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The final chapter of this part considers more complex Object-Z specifications, in particular ones that involve objects and promotions of their operations. Specifications consisting of multiple classes enable a wide range of more complex refinements, by allowing (for example) classes to be split or merged. This chapter investigates how such refinements can be verified, and concludes with an investigation of compositionality of refinement in Object-Z.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    John Derrick

  2. School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Eerke A. Boiten

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Derrick, J., Boiten, E.A. (2014). Class Refinement. In: Refinement in Z and Object-Z. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5355-9_17

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