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Emergent Properties Do Not Refine
Author(s) -
Fiona Polack,
Susan Stepney
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
electronic notes in theoretical computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1571-0661
DOI - 10.1016/j.entcs.2005.04.030
Subject(s) - computer science , relation (database) , development (topology) , discontinuity (linguistics) , position (finance) , theoretical computer science , mathematics , data mining , mathematical analysis , finance , economics
Refinement is conventionally used to effect a demonstrably-correct development from an abstract specification. Emergent systems present an interesting challenge in terms of demonstrably-correct development, because there is a discontinuity between the global and local system descriptions. This is a position paper, exploring some aspects of the challenge in relation to the traditional model of refinement

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