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Stepwise refinement in system-level design corresponds to restructuring an internal structure of a system while preserving functions of the system. We are aiming to build the restructuring process based on refactoring techniques. In this paper, we describe a restructuring procedure to obtain a concrete specification description from an abstract one. Moreover, we describe some existing refactorings used in restructuring steps and a new refactoring for system-level design. We designed a simple internet-router as an example. As a result, we obtained a specification model defined in the SpecC methodology from an abstract one. Moreover, our proposal shows that our research opens a new application field of refactoring, refactoring can be applied sufficiently to system-level design, and the refactoring can be the basis of stepwise refinement.
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Yamasaki, R., Kobayashi, K., Zakaria, N.A., Narazaki, S., Yoshida, N. (2006). Refactoring-Based Stepwise Refinement in Abstract System-Level Design. In: Sha, E., Han, SK., Xu, CZ., Kim, MH., Yang, L.T., Xiao, B. (eds) Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing. EUC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4096. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11802167_72
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