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In ESPRIT project no. EP5570 called IPTES1 a methodology and a supporting environment for incremental prototyping of embedded computer systems is developed. As a part of this prototyping tool an interpreter for an executable subset of a VDM dialect is developed. Based on a comparative study of different notations inspired by VDM we have now selected an executable subset of the BSI/VDM-SL2 notation. This executable subset is interesting because it enables the designer to use loose specification. None of the executable VDM dialects which we have investigated contain as large a part of looseness as our subset does. In this article we will focus mainly on which constructs we have in this subset and how we have dealt with the looseness. Furthermore we will sketch the connection between the semantics of our subset and the semantics for the full BSI/VDM-SL.
The work reported here is partially sponsored by the CEC ESPRIT programme under contract no. EP5570
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Larsen, P.G., Lassen, P.B. (1991). An executable subset of Meta-IV with loose specification. In: Prehn, S., Toetenel, W.J. (eds) VDM'91 Formal Software Development Methods. VDM 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 551. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54834-3_36
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