Three temporal logics are introduced that induce on labeled transition systems the same
identifications as branching bisimulation, a behavioral equivalence that aims at ignoring …

The principle of separation of concerns has long been used by software engineers to
manage the complexity of software system development. Programming languages help …

In this paper we define a combination of Object-Z and CSP called CSP-OZ. The basic idea is
to define a CSP-semantics for every Object-Z class. Special care is taken to capture the …

An important application of formal methods is the specification, design, and analysis of
functional aspects of (distributed) systems. Recently the study of quantitative aspects of such …

Today we rely on computers in more and more aspects of life. They are not only used in
huge companies and systems like insurance companies, banks or power plants, but also in …

This book presents the fundamentals of concurrency theory with clarity and rigor. The
authors start with the semantic structure, namely labelled transition systems, which provides …

The specification language Z has been designed to describe data and functional aspects of
systems, but it does not define a semantics for specifications in a distributed setting. Process …

This introductory chapter outlines the main problem dealt with in this book: finding suitable
languages for representing classes of Petri nets, taking inspiration from the process …

This paper is devoted to the presentation of the RT-LOTOS formal description technique,
which is a formalism suited for applications where concurrency, complex synchronization …

The objective of the Ph. D. work discussed in this paper is to define a methodology for the
design of distributed applications, in line with the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). An …