First International Workshop on Larch: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Larch, Dedham, Massachusetts, Usa, 13-15 July 1992

ISBN-13: 9783540198048 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 315 str.

Ursula Martin; Jeannette M. Wing

Opis

The LARCH family of formal specification languages and tools was originally developed in the USA. Its user community has now spread to Europe and several industrial trial firms are interested in using it in their system development programs. It differs from the other higher profile file languages such as Z and VDM in three respects: firstly, it was designed to specify programs rather than mathematical models and therefore addresses the complexities of real programs; secondly, it has been specifically developed as a practical tool for use in several major application domains; finally, it has a state-of-the-art semantic analysis tool in the form of the LARCH Prover.

Spis treści

Is Engineering Software Amenable to Formal Specification?.- How to Prove Observational Theorems with LP.- Using SOS Definitions in Term Rewriting Proofs.- An exercise in LP: The Proof of a Non Restoring Division circuit.- Integrating ASSPEGIQUE and LP.- Mechanical Verification of Concurrent Systems with TLA.- The DECspec Project: Tools for Larch/C.- Formal Verification of Ada Programs.- A Semantics for a Larch/Modula-3 Interface Language.- Preliminary Design of Larch/C++.- Generating Proof Obligations for Circuits.- Using Transformations and Verification in Circuit Design.- Using LP to Study the Language PL 0 + .- Semantic Analysis of Larch Interface Specifications.- Optimizing Programs with Partial Specifications.- A new Front-End for the Larch Prover.- Thoughts on a Larch/ML and a New Application for LP.