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Verification of Horizontal Refinement

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So far, our focus has been on vertical refinement, i.e. the development of a fine-grained specification out of a more abstract one. Especially in the field of UML, however, a second kind of refinement is of particular interest: horizontal or intra-model refinement. Horizontal refinement deals with the consistency between different description means on the same level of abstraction.

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  1. Verden, Germany

    Julia Seiter

  2. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Robert Wille

  3. AG Rechnerarchitektur, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  4. Cyber-Physical Systems, DFKI GmbH, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

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Seiter, J., Wille, R., Drechsler, R. (2017). Verification of Horizontal Refinement. 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_6

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