In computer science, formal specifications are mathematically based techniques whose purpose is to help with the implementation of systems and software...

In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, analysis, and verification of software...

using formal methods of mathematics. Formal verification is a key incentive for formal specification of systems, and is at the core of formal methods...

A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a...

Property Specification Language (PSL) is a temporal logic extending linear temporal logic with a range of operators for both ease of expression and enhancement...

In computer science Language of Temporal Ordering Specification (LOTOS) is a formal specification language based on temporal ordering of events. LOTOS...

A specification language is a formal language in computer science used during systems analysis, requirements analysis, and systems design to describe a...

used for stepwise refinement, proceeding gradually from an initial formal specification to eventually yield an executable Standard ML program. Correctness...

calculus Formal methods, mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems Formal specification...

/ˈzɛd/ is a formal specification language used for describing and modelling computing systems. It is targeted at the clear specification of computer programs...

family of formal specification languages are intended for the precise specification of computing systems. They allow the clean specification of computer...

(SWEBOK) Design specification Specification (technical standard) Formal specification Abstract type Bourque, P.; Fairley, R.E. (2014). "Guide to the Software...

learning optimizes an objective function—achieving the literal, formal specification of an objective—without actually achieving an outcome that the programmers...

The OpenAPI Specification, previously known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for describing...

The language is formally complete, so it can be used for code generation for either simulation or final targets. The Specification and Description Language...

can agree on what programs in that language mean. Specifications are typically detailed and formal, and primarily used by implementors, with users referring...

formulation of the Transmission Control Program (TCP). Its RFC 675 specification was written by Cerf with Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine in December 1974...

refinement to code rather than just formal specification — hence it is easier to correctly implement a specification written in B than one in Z. In particular...

development projects, it makes sense to do a requirements analysis and a formal specification. For other software development projects, it makes sense to let the...

Years later, as a joke in 1999, the IP over Avian Carriers formal protocol specification was created and successfully tested two years later. 10 years...

differentiation Specification (technical standard), an explicit set of requirements Specification (legal concept), from Roman Law Formal specification, describing...

(which specifies the character set used). The RIFF specification attempts to be a formal specification, but its formalism lacks the precision seen in other...

three semantic entities (actions, data and yielders) to simplify the specification; Algebraic semantics is a form of axiomatic semantics based on algebraic...

Model-based specification is an approach to formal specification where the system specification is expressed as a system state model. This state model...

Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming...

include a group of techniques and tools based on a formal specification language—the VDM Specification Language (VDM-SL). It has an extended form, VDM++...

derivation of a program from its specification, by mathematical means. To derive a program means to write a formal specification, which is usually non-executable...

consultant can extract the rules from IT documentation (like use cases, specifications or system code). They may also organize workshops and interviews with...

focus the efforts of the initial Haskell working group. The last formal specification of the language was made in July 2010, while the development of GHC...

had already become a de facto standard in bioinformatics before a formal specification was written. One of the advantages of this format is the manipulation...