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We describe and formalize a compositional, contract-based submachine refinement for a variant of Abstract State Machines. We motivate the approach by models of the Flash file system case study, where it is infeasible to refine a complete machine as a whole.
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Ernst, G., Pfähler, J., Schellhorn, G., Reif, W. (2014). Modular Refinement for Submachines of ASMs. In: Ait Ameur, Y., Schewe, KD. (eds) Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43652-3_16
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