Lectures for the course CE304 at the University of Essex in 2011
Introductory segment for students taking the course January to March 2012 - academic year 2011-12.
In this, final, segment, we cover another example of promotion, involving the Box Office, taken from Woodcock and Davies' excellent textbook.
in this supplementary segment we specify a priority stack, and an operation on it, by promotion. Again, this comes from Woodcock and Davies' excellent text book.
In this supplementary segment we specify an array and an update operation on it, using promotion. The example comes from Woodcock and Davies' text book.
In this supplementary segment we look at an example of promotion. This concerns the quiz board game Trivial Pursuit - again, it comes from Woodcock and Davies' text book.
In this supplementary segment we look at another example of specification based on an example in Woodcock and Davies' excellent text book
In this segment we look at a technique for specification called promotion. Here we specify small parts of a system entirely separately from the main system - and then plug the small parts into the main system by explaining how the local state of the small parts relate to the global state of the system in general. ;
In this segment we introduce the existential schema quantifier - known as hiding.
In this segment we introduce the schema calculus operation known as schema inclusion and illustrate its use with examples.
In this segment we return to the example and look at further operations on the system of resources