1. Introduction. - 1. 1 Systems. - 1. 2 Specifications. - 1. 3 Refinement. - 1. 4 Application Domains. - 1. 5 Development Process and Methodology. - 1. 6 Rationale of Focus. - 1. 7 Overview of the Book. - 1. 8 How the Book Should Be Read. - 2. A Guided Tour. - 2. 1 Plan for the Tour. - 2. 2 Station 1: Unbounded Buffer. - 2. 3 Station 2: Unbounded Lossy Buffer. - 2. 4 Station 3: Driver. - 2. 5 Station 4: Composite Specifications. - 2. 6 Station 5: Time-Sensitive Buffer. - 2. 7 Station 6: Timed Lossy Buffer. - 2. 8 Station 7: Timed Driver. - 2. 9 Station 8: Timed Composite Specification. - 3. Basics. - 3. 1 Sets. - 3. 2 Tuples. - 3. 3 Functions. - 3. 4 Types. - 3. 5 Logic. - 4. Streams. - 4. 1 Formal Definition of Streams. - 4. 2 Basic Operators on Streams. - 4. 3 Additional Operators on Streams. - 4. 4 Formal Definition of Timed Streams. - 4. 5 Operators on Timed Streams. - 5. Specifications. - 5. 1 Classification of Specifications. - 5. 2 Elementary Specifications. - 5. 3 Composite Specifications. - 5. 4 Black-Box and Glass-Box Views. - 5. 5 Parameterized Specifications. - 5. 6 Sheafs and Replications. - 6. Examples. - 6. 1 Alternating Bit Protocol. - 6. 2 Steam Boiler. - 6. 3 Memory Components. - 7. Properties of Specifications. - 7. 1 Safety and Liveness Properties. - 7. 2 Realizability. - 7. 3 Causality for Specifications. - 8. Equational Specification of State Transitions. - 8. 1 I/O Transitions. - 8. 2 Local States. - 8. 3 Control States. - 8. 4 Oracles. - 9. Access Control System. - 9. 1 System Architecture. - 9. 2 Functional Properties of the Controllers. - 9. 3 Introducing Exception Handling. - 9. 4 Imposing Timing Constraints. - 10. Tables and Diagrams. - 10. 1 State Transition Tables. - 10. 2 State Transition Diagrams. - 10. 3 Semantics of State Transition Tables and Diagrams. - 11. Abracadabra Protocol. - 11. 1 Informal Specification. - 11. 2 Formalization. - 12. A/G Specifications. - 12. 1 Simple Examples. - 12. 2 Semantics. - 12. 3 More Examples. - 13. Memory with Locking. - 13. 1 Black-Box Description. - 13. 2 Distributed Implementation. - 14. Refinement. - 14. 1 Behavioral Refinement. - 14. 2 Interface Refinement. - 14. 3 Conditional Refinement. - 14. 4 Verification. - 14. 5 Glass-Box Refinement. - 14. 6 Development Method. - 15. Behavioral Refinement. - 15. 1 Definition. - 15. 2 Simple Examples. - 15. 3 Logical Properties. - 15. 4 More Examples. - 15. 5 Synchronizing the Communication. - 16. Interface Refinement. - 16. 1 Definition. - 16. 2 A Priming Convention for Channel Identifiers. - 16. 3 Simple Examples. - 16. 4 Methodological Issues. - 16. 5 Logical Properties. - 16. 6 More Examples. - 16. 7 Generalizing Interface Refinement. - 17. Conditional Refinement. - 17. 1 Definition. - 17. 2 Simple Examples. - 17. 3 Logical Properties. - 17. 4 More Examples. - 18. Final Remarks. - 18. 1 How Our Approach Generalizes. - 18. 2 What We Did Not Cover. - A. Operators for Stream Tuples. - A. l Generalized Operators. - A. 2 Tuple Filtering Operator. - A. 3 Timed Filtering Operator. - B. Glossary of Terms. - B. l Sets. - B. 2 Tuples. - B. 3 Functions. - B. 4 Types. - B. 5 Logic. - B. 6 Arithmetics. - B. 7 Streams. - B. 8 Tuples of Streams. - B. 9 Specifications. - B. 10 Strategies. Language: English