RAISE Specification Language. (RAISE = Rigorous Approach to Industrial Software Engineering). A wide-spectrum specification and design language developed bYESPRIT Project 315 at CRI A/S, Denmark. SYstems maY be modular, concurrent, nondeterministic. Specifications maY be applicative or imperative, explicit or implicit, abstract or concrete. ["The RAISE Specification Language", RAISE Language Group, P-H 1992, ISBN 0-13-752833-7].