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Diagrammatic specifications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2003

DOMINIQUE DUVAL
Affiliation:
Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire de Modélisation et Calcul, B. P. 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Email: [email protected]

Abstract

This paper presents a simple and powerful diagrammatic framework for dealing with specifications in computer science. Following a classical line, we define diagrammatic specifications as a kind of generalised sketch. In addition, the specifications themselves are defined as the realisations of projective sketches. This meta level provides adjunction properties: this is due to a well-known result of Ehresmann. Moreover, we prove in this paper that this meta level also provides an efficient definition of deduction. This work results from a collaboration with Christian Lair.

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Paper
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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