This book provides a comprehensive overview of automatic model
refinement, which helps readers close the gap between initial textual
specification and its desired implementation. The authors enable readers
to follow two "directions" for refinement: Vertical refinement, for
adding detail and precision to single description for a given model and
Horizontal refinement, which considers several views on one level of
abstraction, refining the system specification by dedicated descriptions
for structure or behavior. The discussion includes several methods which
support designers of electronic systems in this refinement process,
including verification methods to check automatically whether a
refinement has been conducted as intended.