creators_name: Hallerstede, Stefan
creators_id: sth@ecs.soton.ac.uk
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2008-07-04 10:17:26
lastmod: 2010-04-19 15:05:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: On the Purpose of Event-B Proof Obligations
ispublished: inpress
subjects: Event-Bsemantics
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: Event-B is a formal modelling method which is claimed to be suitable for diverse modelling domains, such as reactive systems and sequential program development. This claim hinges on the fact that any particular model has an appropriate semantics. In Event-B this semantics is provided implicitly by proof obligations associated with a model. There is no fixed semantics though. In this article we argue that this approach is beneficial to modelling because we can use similar proof obligations across a variety of modelling domains. By way of two examples we show how similar proof obligations are linked to different semantics.  A small set of proof obligations is thus suitable for a whole range of modelling problems in diverse modelling domains.
date: 2008-06-31
date_type: published
event_title: ABZ2008
event_location: London
event_dates: September 2008
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16052/
citation:   Hallerstede, Stefan  (2008) On the Purpose of Event-B Proof Obligations.  In: ABZ2008, September 2008, London.    (In Press)  
document_url: http://deploy-eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/26/1/evtbena.pdf