VDM '88. VDM - The Way Ahead: 2nd VDM-Europe Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-16, 1988. Proceedings
Robin Bloomfield, Lynn S. Marshall, Roger Bishop Jones · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1988
Computing is a physical science.- Structuring for the VDM specification language.- Correctness for beginners.- Understanding an informal description: Office documents architecture, an ISO standard.- Towards a formal definition of GKS and other graphics standards.- Report from the BSI panel for the standardisation of VDM (IST/5/50).- Formal methods in standards-A report from the BCS working group.- The B tool (Abstract).- Specification of an operating system kernel forest and VDM compared.- Compiler prototyping with VDM and standard ML.- VDM development with Ada as the target language.- NUSL: An executable specification language based on data abstraction.- A support system for formal reasoning: Requirements and status.- The use of VDM within the Alvey Flagship project.- The formal definition of modula-2 and its associated interpreter.- Test case selection using VDM.- The VIP VDM Specification Language.- Sample - A functional language.- A three-valued logic for software specification and validation.- Three-valued predicates for software specification and validation.- A set-theoretic model for a typed polymorphic lambda calculus a contribution to MetaSoft.- Mutually recursive algebraic domain equations.- Proof rules for VDM statements.- Muffin: A user interface design experiment for a Theorem Proving Assistant.- The RAISE language, method and tools.- Correctness proofs for META IV written code generator specifications using term rewriting.- Using VDM with rely and guarantee-conditions.- Software support for the refinement of VDM specifications.- The use of VDM in the specification of Chinese characters.