Refinement: Semantics, Languages and Applications (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Semantics.- Labeled Transition Systems and their Refinement.- Automata - introducing simulations.- Simple State Based Refinement.- A Relational View of Refinement.- Perspicuity, Divergence, and Internal Operations.- Refinement in Specification Languages.- State-based Languages: Z and B.- State-based Languages: Event-B and ASM.- Relating Notions of Refinement.- Relational Concurrent Refinement.- Relating Data Refinement and Failures-divergences Refinement.- Process data types - a fully general model of concurrent refinement.