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ZUM '95: The Z Formal Specification Notation

9th International Conference of Z Users, Limerick, Ireland, September 7 - 9, 1995. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 967)

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. A formal approach to software design: The Clepsydra methodology

    • P. Ciaccia, P. Ciancarini, W. Penzo
    Pages 5-24
  3. Refining database systems

    • David Edmond
    Pages 25-44
  4. On the use of formal specifications in the design and simulation of artificial neural networks

    • Patrícia Duarte de Lima Machado, Silvio Lemos Meira
    Pages 63-82
  5. An algebraic proof in VDM ♣

    • A. P. Hughes, A. A. Donnelly
    Pages 114-133
  6. Testing as abstraction

    • Susan Stepney
    Pages 136-151
  7. Improving software tests using Z Specifications

    • Hans-Martin Hörcher
    Pages 152-166
  8. Equal rights for schemas in Z

    • Samuel H Valentine
    Pages 182-202
  9. Structuring Z specifications: Some choices

    • Anthony MacDonald, David Carrington
    Pages 203-223
  10. Experiments with the Z interchange format and SGML

    • Daniel M. Germán, D. D. Cowan
    Pages 224-233
  11. The future of industrial formal methods

    • Anthony Hall, David Parnas, Nico Plat, John Rushby, Chris Sennett
    Pages 236-242
  12. Specifications and their use in defining subtypes

    • Barbara Liskov, Jeannette M. Wing
    Pages 244-263
  13. How firing conditions help inheritance

    • Ben Strulo
    Pages 264-275
  14. Extending W for Object-Z

    • Graeme Smith
    Pages 276-295
  15. A formal semantics for a language with type extension

    • Peter Bancroft, Ian Hayes
    Pages 298-314

About this book

This book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Z Users, ZUM '95, held in Limerick, Ireland in September 1995.
The book contains 34 carefully selected papers on Z, using Z, applications of Z, proof, testing, industrial usage, object orientation, animation of specification, method integration, and teaching formal methods. Of particular interest is the inclusion of an annotated Z bibliography listing 544 entries. While focussing on Z, by far the most commonly used "formal method" both in industry and application, the volume is of high relevance for the whole formal methods community.

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