This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Z Users, ZUM'97, held in Reading, UK, in April 1997.
The volume presents 18 revised full papers together with three invited presentations by internationally leading experts. The papers are organized into topical sections on real-time systems, tools, logic, system development, reactive systems, refinement, and applications. Also a select Z bibliography by Jonathan Bowen is added. All in all, the book competently reports the state-of-the-art in research and advanced applications of the Z notation.
Author(s): Constance Heitmeyer (auth.), Jonathan P. Bowen, Michael G. Hinchey, David Till (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1212
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 442
Tags: Software Engineering; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Programming Techniques; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
Formal methods: A panacea or academic poppycock?....Pages 1-9
An introduction to the event calculus....Pages 10-34
Experiences with PiZA, an Animator for Z....Pages 35-51
Automating test case generation from Z specifications with Isabelle....Pages 52-71
The Z/EVES system....Pages 72-85
Taking Z seriously....Pages 87-91
A formal OO method inspired by Fusion and Object-Z....Pages 92-111
W Reconstructed....Pages 113-134
Using the rippling heuristic in set membership proofs....Pages 135-147
A practical method for rigorously controllable hardware design....Pages 149-187
Integrating VDM ++ and real-time system design....Pages 188-219
An approach to the design of distributed systems with B AMN....Pages 221-241
Specifying reactive systems in B AMN....Pages 242-274
An improved recipe for specifying reactive systems in Z....Pages 275-294
A Z specification of the soft-link hypertext model....Pages 295-316
Experience with Z developing a control program for a radiation therapy machine....Pages 317-328
Preliminary evaluation of a formal approach to user interface specification....Pages 329-346
Analyzing and refining an architectural style....Pages 347-368
Weak refinement in Z....Pages 369-388
Select Z bibliography....Pages 389-424
Comp.specification.z and Z FORUM frequently asked questions....Pages 425-433
