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About 30 years in the past, numerous items and devices were required for the equivalent functionality to what a smartphone offers today: a telephone, an address book, a map, a photo album, an analog camera, board or card games, a radio, newspapers and journals, a notepad, a calculator, an alarm clock. Today, a single device which can be carried in a pocket offers all this and more.

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Seiter, J., Wille, R., Drechsler, R. (2017). Introduction. In: Automatic Methods for the Refinement of System Models. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41480-5_1

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