Books

Books : reviews

[cover]

Jonathan P. Bowen, Michael G. Hinchey, David Till, editors. ZUM '97: The Z Formal Specification Notation: 10th International Conference of Z Users, Reading. Springer. 1997

 

Contents

Constance Heitmeyer.
Formal Methods: Panacea or Academic Poppycock?
Bill Stoddart.
The Event Calculus
M. A. Hewitt, Colin M. O'Halloran, Chris T. Sennett.
Experiences with PiZA, an animator for Z
Steffen Helke, Thomas Neustupny, Thomas Santen.
Automating Test Case Generation from Z Specifications with Isabelle
Mark Saaltink.
The Z/EVES System
J. Anthony Hall.
Taking Z Seriously
(extended abstract)
Klaus Achatz, Wolfram Schulte.
A Formal OO Method inspired by Fusion and Object-Z
Jon G. Hall, Andrew Martin.
W Reconstructed
Ina Kraan.
Using the Rippling Heuristic in Set Membership Proofs
Egon Borger, S. Mazzanti.
A Practical Method for Rigorously Controllable Hardware Design
Kevin C. Lano, Stephen J. Goldsack, Juan C. Bicarregui, Stuart J. H. Kent.
Integrating VDM++ and Real-Time System Design
Michael J. Butler.
An Approach to the Design of Distributed Systems with B AMN
Kevin C. Lano.
Specifying Reactive Systems in B AMN
Andy S. Evans.
An Improved Recipe for Specifying Reactive Systems in Z
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Hu.
A Z Specification of the Soft-Link Hypertext Model
Jonathan Jacky, Jonathan Unger, Michael Patrick, David Reid, Ruedi Risler.
Experience with Z developing a Control Program for a Radiation Therapy Machine
John C. Knight, Susan S. Brilliant.
Preliminary Evaluation of a Formal Approach to User Interface Specification
Paolo Ciancarini, Cecilia Mascolo.
Analysing and Refining an Architectural Style
John Derrick, Eerke A. Boiten, Howard Bowman, Maarten Steen.
Weak Refinement in Z