@inproceedings{48b84c31fbf44e639ebc7bbc569df8c4,
title = "An Engineering Approach towards Action Refinement",
abstract = "In the abstract modelling of distributed systems we may need methods to replace abstract behaviours by more concrete behaviours which are closer to implementation mechanisms. Furthermore, we may want these methods to preserve the correctness of such a replacement. This paper introduces an approach towards action refinement in which an abstract action is replaced by a concrete activity. This approach is based on a careful consideration of the `action' and `causality relation' architectural concepts, which enable an abstract action to be replaced by many alternative concrete activities in a general way. This approach is based on the application of abstraction rules to determine whether a concrete activity conforms to an abstract action, considering the context in which the concrete activity and the abstract action are embedded",
keywords = "IR-19504, METIS-120027",
author = "Dick Quartel and {Ferreira Pires}, Luis and Franken, {Henry M.} and H.M. Franken and C.A. Vissers",
year = "1995",
month = aug,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524994",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "0-8186-7125-4",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "266--273",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop in Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "null ; Conference date: 28-08-1995 Through 30-08-1995",
}