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4.4.2 INTERFACE THEORIES AS BEHAVIORAL-TYPE THEORIES
The term interface theories originates from the work of de Alfaro and Henzinger [12,13] and has
been followed up in numerous other works. There are different types of theories, for asynchronous
or synchronous systems, untimed or timed, targeting correctness or performance properties, and so
on. In addition, interface theories are related to the problem of compositional verification that seeks
to simplify large verification problems by decomposing them into smaller problems. It is beyond the
scope of this chapter to give an account of this vast