VDM Specification of the Steam-Boiler Control Using RSL Notation

This document presents a steam-boiler control specification for the seminar “Semantische Methoden im Wettbewerb” on June 5–9 1995 in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany based on the informal specification provided by Jean-Raymond Abrial ([2]). The style of the specification itself is strongly related to VDM. Therefore most of the definitions are explicit as they used to be in traditional VDM specifications. The specification language used is RSL (the RAISE Specification Language [1]).

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