عنوان

Data refinement :

(Number (ISBN

9780511663079 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521103503 (paperback)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521641708 (hardback)

Number

b504389

Title Proper

Data refinement :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

model-oriented proof methods and their comparison /

First Statement of Responsibility

Willem-Paul de Roever, Kai Engelhardt ; with the assistance of Karl-Heinz Buth [and others]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 423 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Series Title

Cambridge tracts in theoretical computer science ;

Volume Designation

47.

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the important and highly applicable method of data refinement and the simulation methods used for proving its correctness. The authors concentrate in the first part on the general principles needed to prove data refinement correct. They begin with an explanation of the fundamental notions, showing that data refinement proofs reduce to proving simulation. The book's second part contains a detailed survey of important methods in this field, which are carefully analysed, and shown to be either incomplete, with counterexamples to their application, or to be always applicable whenever data refinement holds. This is shown by proving, for the first time, that all these methods can be described and analysed in terms of two simple notions: forward and backward simulation. The book is self-contained, going from advanced undergraduate level and taking the reader to the state of the art in methods for proving simulation.

Computer programs-- Verification.

Computer simulation.

Data structures (Computer science)

Class number

Book number

Roever, W.-P. de,1943-

Buth, Karl-Heinz

Engelhardt, Kai,1966-

Date of Transaction

20151005020623.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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