Humans employ analogical reasoning frequently to reuse past experience for solving new problems. In this paper we show how past experience in program specification can be used b y analogy to formalize new specifications. We briefly describe our analogy-based approach and then present the library example to illustrate how analogy can handle certain sources of informality. 0-8186-2605-4/91$1.00 0 1991 IEEE
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