A decidable constraint diagram reasoning system

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STAPLETON, GEM, HOWSE, JOHN and TAYLOR, JOHN (2005) A decidable constraint diagram reasoning system Journal of Logic and Computation, 15 (6). pp. 975-1008. ISSN 0955-792X

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Abstract

Constraint diagrams are a visual notation designed for use by software engineers to formally specify information systems. In this paper we formalize a fragment of the constraint diagram language. A set of reasoning rules are defined and we prove that this set is both sound and complete. Given constraint diagrams D_1 and D_2 such that D_2 is a semantic consequence of D_1, to prove completeness we construct a proof of D_2 from D_1. A decision procedure can be extracted from this proof construction process and it follows that the system is decidable

Item Type:	Journal article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Visual logic; formal methods; diagrammatic reasoning
Subjects:	G000 Computing and Mathematical Sciences > G400 Computing
DOI (a stable link to the resource):	10.1093/logcom/exi041
Faculties:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics > Visual Modelling
ID Code:	50
Deposited By:	Converis
Deposited On:	10 May 2007
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2013 04:01

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