Understanding Safety Constraints Coalgebraically

Abstract: Safety constraints are crucial to the development of mission-critical systems. The practice of developing software for systems of this type requires reliable methods for identifying and analysing project artefacts. This paper proposes a coalgebraic approach to understanding behavioural constraints for systems of a kind. The advantage of the proposed approach is that it gives a framework for providing abstract semantic models of the domain-specific languages designed for specifying behavioural constraints.