This paper surveys the logical and mathematical foundations of CafeOBJ, which is a
successor of the famous algebraic specification language OBJ but adds to it several new …

Formal methods for the specification and verification of hardware and software systems are
becoming more and more important as systems increase in size and complexity. The aim of …

This is an introduction to the philosophy and use of OBJ, emphasizing its oper-ational
semantics, with aspects of its history and its logical semantics. Release 2 of OBJ3 is …

CAFE is the name of a network based environment now under development for supporting
systematic creation, checking, verification, and maintenance of formal specifications. CAFE …

As its title promises, this book provides foundations for software specification and formal
software development from the perspective of work on algebraic specification. It …

Algebraic Semantics of Imperative Programs presents a self-contained and novel
executable introduction to formal reasoning about imperative programs. The authors' …

This paper publicly reveals, motivates, and surveys the results of an ambitious hidden
agenda for applying algebra to software engineering. The paper reviews selected literature …

Institutions formalise the intuitive notion of logical system, including syntax, semantics, and
the relation of satisfaction between them. Our exposition emphasises the natural way that …

This book can be seen either as a text on theorem proving that uses techniques from
general algebra, or else as a text on general algebra illustrated and made concrete by …

Software development is a complex and error prone task. Programming languages with
strong static type systems assist programmers by capturing and checking the fundamental …