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Event Based Sequential Program Development: Application to Constructing a Pointer Program

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FME 2003: Formal Methods (FME 2003)

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In this article, I present an "event approach" used to formally develop sequential programs. It is based on the formalism of Action Systems [6] (and Guarded Commands [7]), which is is interesting because it involves a large number of pointer manipulations.

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  1. Consultant, Marseille, France

    Jean-Raymond Abrial

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1-Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, 812-8581, Fukuoka, Japan

    Keijiro Araki

  2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Stefania Gnesi

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Dino Mandrioli

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Abrial, JR. (2003). Event Based Sequential Program Development: Application to Constructing a Pointer Program. In: Araki, K., Gnesi, S., Mandrioli, D. (eds) FME 2003: Formal Methods. FME 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45236-2_5

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