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FME 1994: FME '94: Industrial Benefit of Formal Methods pp 381–400Cite as

A critical look at functional specifications

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This paper describes a method which allows specifiers to specify systems using the standard Oxford style Z specification and then to state critical properties (in this case security) on the whole specification without having to specify another model of the system. It does this by showing how a natural semantics can be explicitly given to Oxford style Z specifications. This allows separation of the differing concerns of modelling the security and functional aspects of a system.

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  1. CESG, Fiddler's Green Lane, GL52 5AJ, Cheltenham

    Rodger Collinson

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Maurice Naftalin Tim Denvir Miquel Bertran

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Collinson, R. (1994). A critical look at functional specifications. In: Naftalin, M., Denvir, T., Bertran, M. (eds) FME '94: Industrial Benefit of Formal Methods. FME 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58555-9_106

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