The ABS Language

ABS is a language for Abstract Behavioral Specification, which combines implementation-level specifications with verifiability, high-level design with executablity, and formal semantics with practical usability. ABS is a concurrent, object-oriented, modeling language that features functional data-types.

ABS is designed to develop executable models with an object-oriented program flow
ABS targets distributed and concurrent systems by means of concurrent object groups and asynchronous method calls
ABS supports model variability based on delta-oriented specifications
ABS supports deployment modelling based on high-level deployment models
ABS supports a range of techniques for model exploration and analysis, based on formal semantics

Overview