@InProceedings{RoantreeClint90, title = "{A} formal top-down developement method for occam programs", author= "Roantree, Donal and Clint, Maurice", editor= "Zedan, Hussein S. M.", pages = "262--286", booktitle= "{OUG}-13: {R}eal-{T}ime {S}ystems with {T}ransputers", isbn= "90 5199 041 3", year= "1990", month= "sep", abstract= "This paper describes a formal development method for mathematical applications in occam. Refinement rules form the basis of the method. A traces model is defined and used to give a formal semantics to occam. The rules are proved sound with respect to this semantics." }