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Title Specification of Required Non-Determinism
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Abstract We present an approach to the specification of required external non-determinism the willingness of a component to respond to a number of external action requests, using a language, COMMUNITY, which provides both permission and willingness guards on actions. This enables a program-like declaration of required non-determinism, in contrast to the use of a branching-time temporal logic. We give a definition of parallel composition for this language, and show that refinement is compositional with respect to parallel composition. We use the concepts developed for COMMUNITY to identify extensions to the B and VDM++ model-based specification languages to incorporate specification of required non-determinism. In particular, we show that preconditions may be considered as a form of willingness guard, separating concerns of acceptance and termination, once module contracts are re-interpreted in a way suitable for a concurrent environment.
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Paper In Conference Proceedings In Fourth International Sumposium of Formal Methods Europe (FME'97), Graz, Austria, September 15-19, 1997, (1997). FME97.pdf 1997