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ZB 2003: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B

Third International Conference of B and Z Users, Turku, Finland, June 4-6, 2003, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2651)

Conference series link(s): ZB: International Conference of B and Z Users

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Alloy: A Logical Modelling Language

    • Daniel Jackson
    Pages 1-1
  3. An Outline Pattern Language for Z: Five Illustrations and Two Tables

    • Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack, Ian Toyn
    Pages 2-19
  4. Patterns to Guide Practical Refactoring: Examples Targetting Promotion in Z

    • Susan Stepney, Fiona Polack, Ian Toyn
    Pages 20-39
  5. Reuse of Specification Patterns with the B Method

    • Sandrine Blazy, Frédéric Gervais, Régine Laleau
    Pages 40-57
  6. Composing Specifications Using Communication

    • Helen Treharne, Steve Schneider, Marchia Bramble
    Pages 58-78
  7. When Concurrent Control Meets Functional Requirements, or Z + Petri-Nets

    • Frédéric Peschanski, David Julien
    Pages 79-97
  8. Parallel Hardware Design in B

    • Stefan Hallerstede
    Pages 101-102
  9. Operation Refinement and Monotonicity in the Schema Calculus

    • Moshe Deutsch, Martin C. Henson, Steve Reeves
    Pages 103-126
  10. Using Coupled Simulations in Non-atomic Refinement

    • John Derrick, Heike Wehrheim
    Pages 127-147
  11. An Analysis of Forward Simulation Data Refinement

    • Moshe Deutsch, Martin C. Henson
    Pages 148-167
  12. B#: Toward a Synthesis between Z and B

    • Jean-Raymond Abrial
    Pages 168-177
  13. Introducing Backward Refinement into B

    • Steve Dunne
    Pages 178-196
  14. Expression Transformers in B-GSL

    • Bill Stoddart, Frank Zeyda
    Pages 197-215
  15. Probabilistic Termination in B

    • Annabelle McIver, Carroll Morgan, Thai Son Hoang
    Pages 216-239
  16. Probabilistic Invariants for Probabilistic Machines

    • Thai Son Hoang, Zhendong Jin, Ken Robinson, Annabelle McIver, Carroll Morgan
    Pages 240-259
  17. Proving Temporal Properties of Z Specifications Using Abstraction

    • Graeme Smith, Kirsten Winter
    Pages 260-279
  18. Compositional Verification for Object-Z

    • Kirsten Winter, Graeme Smith
    Pages 280-299
  19. Timed CSP and Object-Z

    • John Derrick
    Pages 300-318

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, CNRS, Saint-Martin-d’Heres Cedex, France

    Didier Bert

  • CISM, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Jonathan P. Bowen

  • Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

    Steve King

  • Department of Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

    Marina Waldén

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