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Refinement: An overview

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Refinement Techniques in Software Engineering (PSSE 2004)

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The purpose of this initial chapter is to introduce concepts and techniques assumed as general background in the remaining chapters of this book. The relevant notions are introduced using a simple and well-known programming notation: Dijkstra’s language of guarded commands [18], presented in Section [1].

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Ana Cavalcanti & Jim Woodcock

  2. Centro de Informática, Universitates Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Augusto Sampaio

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Ana Cavalcanti

  2. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Caixa Postal 7851, 50732-970, Recife/PE, Brazil

    Augusto Sampaio

  3. University of York,  

    Jim Woodcock

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Cavalcanti, A., Sampaio, A., Woodcock, J. (2006). Refinement: An overview. In: Cavalcanti, A., Sampaio, A., Woodcock, J. (eds) Refinement Techniques in Software Engineering. PSSE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11889229_1

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