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An institution for a simple logic of behaviour is built using a cofibration from a category of transition systems into the envisaged category of signatures. The chosen propositional, linear temporal logic distinguishes between event occurrence and event enabling. The satisfaction condition is proved using a fibered adjunction between transition systems and their computations. The operational semantics of behaviour specifications is briefly discussed.
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Sernadas, A., Costa, J.F., Sernadas, C. (1994). An institution of object behaviour. In: Ehrig, H., Orejas, F. (eds) Recent Trends in Data Type Specification. ADT COMPASS 1992 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57867-6_21
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