The Problem of Undefinedness in Specifications
Douglas R. Legenfelder · 1988
Abstract : Conventional approaches to the formal specifications of computing systems do not provide a facility for leaving elements undefined. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a formalism for such a facility and to examine it's affect on the underlying semantics. These ideas are thus a modification of conventional formalism using semantics. Keywords; Term rewriting systems, Dendrogrammars, Formal specification, Algebraic semantics, Software engineering.