Albert Benveniste, "Contracts for System Design (Foundations and Trends"
English | ISBN: 1680834029 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1680834029 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Recently, contract-based design has been proposed as an "orthogonal" approachthat complements system design methodologies proposed so far tocope with the complexity of system design. Contract-based design providesa rigorous scaffolding for verification, analysis, abstraction/refinement, andeven synthesis. Several results have been obtained in this domain buta unified treatment of the topic that can help put contract-based design inperspective has been missing.
Contracts for System Design provides such a treatmentwhere contracts are precisely defined and characterized so that they canbe used in design methodologies with no ambiguity. It identifies the essence of complex system design using contracts througha mathematical "meta-theory", where all the properties of the methodologyare derived from a very abstract and generic notion of contract. This meta-theory provides deep and illuminating links with existing contract
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