Title : 
Category semantics for fusion and refinement of multi-sorted specifications
         
        
            Author : 
Tomasik, Jerzy ; Weyman, Jerzy
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Laboratoire LLAIC1, Université Clermont 1, BP 86, 63172 Aubiÿre cedex (France). tomasik@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The goal of this paper is to describe the theory of refinements of specifications based on localizations of categories. The approach allows us to enlarge the family of refinements (i.e. specification morphisms) of the co-complete category Spec - the category of first order theories (specifications) of multi-sorted algebras. We prove that the class of specification morphisms in the category Spec can be enriched by the class of all interpretations of theories from Spec in all definitional extensions of theories of multi-sorted algebras. it may provide a guide for finding a path leading from a given specification to a specification which is a provably correct code in a programming language (like C ++,Lisp, Java)..
         
        
            Keywords : 
Algebra; Calculus; Computer languages; Information analysis; Java; Mathematics; Sensor fusion; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Software systems; Category localization; Specware; fusion; specification refinements;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Florence
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0953-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
0-9721844-6-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIF.2006.301630