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The Event-B XText front-end provides text editors for XContexts and and XMachines which then compiled automatically to Event-B contexts and machines.
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== Introduction ==
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One of the most important feature of the Event-B approach is the ability to introduce new events during refinement steps, but a consequence is an increasing complexity of the refinement process when having to deal with many events and many state variables.
  
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The main idea of the decomposition is to cut a model <math>A</math> into sub-models <math>A_1, ..., A_n</math>, which can be refined separately and more confortably than the whole.
  
Please have a look also at the [[Event-B XText Front-end User Guide]].
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The constraint that shall be satisfied by the decomposition is that these refined models might - the recomposition will never be performed in practice - be recomposed into a whole model <math>R</math> in a way that guarantees that <math>R</math> refines <math>A</math>. An event-based decomposition of a model is detailed in [[Event Model Decomposition]]: the events of a model are partitioned to form the events of the sub-models. In parallel, the variables on which these events are acting are distributed among the sub_models.
  
=== Current version ===
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The purpose is here to precisely describe what is required at the Rodin platform level to integrate this event model decomposition, and to explain why. The details of how it could be implemented are out of scope.
The Event-B XText front-end 0.0.2 is available as a separate plug-in from the main Rodin update site (under the Editor category).
 
  
=== Principles ===
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== Terminology ==
The Event-B XText editors (i.e., XContext and XMachine editors) do not work directly on the Rodin files. Instead, they operate on the separate XContext and XMachine and they are compiled to the Rodin files.
 
  
=== A basic overview ===
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== Architecture ==
  
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== Specification ==
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=== Requirements ===
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== Bibliography ==
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* J.R. Abrial, Mathematical Models for Refinement and Decomposition, in ''The Event-B Book'', February 2007.
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* J.R. Abrial, ''[[Event Model Decomposition]]'', Version 1.3, April 2009.
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* M. Butler, Decomposition Structures for Event-B, in ''Integrated Formal Methods iFM2009'', Springer, LNCS 5423, 2009 ([http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/16965/1/butler.pdf lien externe]).
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Revision as of 10:23, 10 June 2009

Introduction

One of the most important feature of the Event-B approach is the ability to introduce new events during refinement steps, but a consequence is an increasing complexity of the refinement process when having to deal with many events and many state variables.

The main idea of the decomposition is to cut a model A into sub-models A_1, ..., A_n, which can be refined separately and more confortably than the whole.

The constraint that shall be satisfied by the decomposition is that these refined models might - the recomposition will never be performed in practice - be recomposed into a whole model R in a way that guarantees that R refines A. An event-based decomposition of a model is detailed in Event Model Decomposition: the events of a model are partitioned to form the events of the sub-models. In parallel, the variables on which these events are acting are distributed among the sub_models.

The purpose is here to precisely describe what is required at the Rodin platform level to integrate this event model decomposition, and to explain why. The details of how it could be implemented are out of scope.

Terminology

Architecture

Specification

Requirements

Bibliography

  • J.R. Abrial, Mathematical Models for Refinement and Decomposition, in The Event-B Book, February 2007.
  • J.R. Abrial, Event Model Decomposition, Version 1.3, April 2009.
  • M. Butler, Decomposition Structures for Event-B, in Integrated Formal Methods iFM2009, Springer, LNCS 5423, 2009 (lien externe).