Summary: The Existence of Refinement Mappings
Mart'in Abadi and Leslie Lamport
August 14, 1988

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Author's Abstract
Refinement mappings are used to prove that a lower­level specification cor­
rectly implements a higher­level one. We consider specifications consisting

Source: Abadi, Martín - Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Cruz

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