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ZUM
2005
Springer
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Requirements as Conjectures: Intuitive DVD Menu Navigation
In this paper we use Z to capture the requirements for an ‘intuitive’ menu navigation system as a series of conjectures that should hold. We use those requirements to investiga...
Jemima Rossmorris, Susan Stepney
FM
1999
Springer
88views Formal Methods» more  FM 1999»
15 years 10 months ago
Refinement Semantics and Loop Rules
Refinement semantics is an alternative to least fixpoint semantics that is more useful for programming. From it we derive a variety of rules for w h i l e-loops, for-loops, and loo...
Eric C. R. Hehner, Andrew M. Gravell
TYPES
1993
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Proof-Checking a Data Link Protocol
Abstract. A data link protocol developed and used by Philips Electronics is modeled and veri ed using I/O automata theory. Correctness is computer-checked with the Coq proof develo...
Leen Helmink, M. P. A. Sellink, Frits W. Vaandrage...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Planning and defeasible reasoning
We present an argumentation-based formalism that an agent could use for constructing plans. We will analyze the interaction of arguments and actions when they are combined to cons...
Diego R. García, Alejandro Javier Garc&iacu...
CNSR
2006
IEEE
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16 years 10 days ago
Combining Petri Nets and ns-2: A Hybrid Method for Analysis and Simulation
Network protocol performance and evaluation study is often carried out using a couple of widely used simulation toolkits, such as ns-2 and OPNET. These toolkits usually contain ma...
Qiang Ye, Mike H. MacGregor