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Specification plays a vital role in software engineering to facilitate the development of highly dependable software. Various techniques may be used for specification work. Z is a formal specification language that is based on a strongly-typed fragment of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and first-order logic to provide for precise and unambiguous specifications. While diagrammatic specification languages may lack precision, they may, owing to their visual characteristics be a lucrative option for advocates of semi-formal specification techniques. In this paper we investigate to what extent formal constructs, e.g. Z may be transformed into diagrammatic notations. Several diagrammatic notations are considered and combined for this purpose.
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Moremedi, K., van der Poll, J.A. (2013). Transforming Formal Specification Constructs into Diagrammatic Notations. In: Cuzzocrea, A., Maabout, S. (eds) Model and Data Engineering. MEDI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41366-7_18
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