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Recently, a refinement calculus called ZRC has been proposed for Z; it follows the style and conventions of the Z notation and is completely formalised. As any other formal technique, however, it needs tool support to be of practical use. In this paper, we present such a tool, which we call ZRC-Refine. It is an interactive tool, whose design makes it distinctively user-friendly. We believe that ZRC-Refine is a significant encouragement to the extended application of ZRC and of Z itself.
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Freitas, A., Nascimento, C., Cavalcanti, A. (2003). A Refinement Tool for Z. In: Dong, J.S., Woodcock, J. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39893-6_23
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