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The drawbacks of using refinement alone in the construction of specifications from simple abstract models is used as the spur for the introduction of retrenchment — a method based on the main ideas of refinement but one which is more liberal in character. The basics of the retrenchment mechanism are reviewed in preparation for exploring its integration with refinement. The particular aspect of integration investigated in this paper is the factorisation of a retrenchment step from an abstract to a concrete model into a refinement followed by a retrenchment. The objective is to engineer a system which is at the level of abstraction of the concrete model, but is refinable from the abstract one. The construction given here solves the problem in a universal manner, there being a canonical factorisation of the original retrenchment into an I/O-filtered refinement to the universal system followed by a retrenchment. The universal property arises from the fact that the refinement component of any similar factorisation is refinable to the universal system. An idempotence property supports the claim that the construction is at the correct level of abstraction. A synopsis of an earlier result which factorised a retrenchment step into a canonical retrenchment to a universal system followed by a refinement is presented. A refinement relationship is then shown to exist between the two universal systems. Finally, the consequences of including termination criteria are briefly explored.
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Jeske, C., Banach, R. (2002). Minimally and Maximally Abstract Retrenchments. In: Butler, M., Petre, L., Sere, K. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47884-1_21
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