CAMILA: Prototyping and Refinement of Constructive Specifications

摘要

This paper accompanies the demonstration of CAMILA, an experimental platform for formal software development, rooted in the tradition of constructive specification methods. The CAMILA approach is an attempt to make available at software development level the basic problem solving strategy one got used to form school physics - create, experiment and reason on a mathematical model. Based on a notion of formal software component, it encompasses a set-theoretic language and an inequational calculus for classification and refinement. Its kernel is a functional prototyping environment, fully connectable to external applications, equipped with a classified component repository and distribution facilities.