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A CSP Account of Event-B Refinement
Event-B provides a flexible framework for stepwise system development via
refinement. The framework supports steps for (a) refining events (one-by-one),
(b) splitting events (one-by-many), and (c) introducing new events. In each of
the steps events can moreover possibly be anticipated or convergent. All such
steps are accompanied with precise proof obligations. Still, it remains unclear
what the exact relationship - in terms of a behaviour-oriented semantics -
between an Event-B machine and its refinement is. In this paper, we give a CSP
account of Event-B refinement, with a treatment for the first time of splitting
events and of anticipated events. To this end, we define a CSP semantics for
Event-B and show how the different forms of Event-B refinement can be captured
as CSP refinement.Comment: In Proceedings Refine 2011, arXiv:1106.348