ZB 2002: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B

Theories, Implementations, and Transformations.- Incremental Proof of the Producer/Consumer Property for the PCI Protocol.- Controlling Control Systems: An Application of Evolving Retrenchment.- Checking Z Data Refinements Using an Animation Tool.- Encoding Object-Z in Isabelle/HOL.- Characters + Mark-up = Z Lexis.- Extraction of Abstraction Invariants for Data Refinement.- An Approach to Combining B and Alloy.- Software Construction by Stepwise Feature Introduction.- The Semantics of Circus.- Handling Inconsistencies in Z Using Quasi-Classical Logic.- Loose Specification and Refinement in Z.- On Using Conditional Definitions in Formal Theories.- A Theory of Generalised Substitutions.- Reinforced Condition/Decision Coverage (RC/DC): A New Criterion for Software Testing.- A Comparison of the BTT and TTF Test-Generation Methods.- A Formal Analysis of the CORBA Security Service.- Type Synthesis in B and the Translation of B to PVS.- “Higher-Order” Mathematics in B.- ABS Project: Merging the Best Practices in Software Design from Railway and Aircraft Industries.- Generalised Substitution Language and Differentials.- Communicating B Machines.- Synchronized Parallel Composition of Event Systems in B.- Global and Communicating State Machine Models in Event Driven B: A Simple Railway Case Study.- Verification of Dynamic Constraints for B Event Systems under Fairness Assumptions.- A Formal Model of the UML Metamodel: The UML State Machine and Its Integrity Constraints.- Coming and Going from UML to B: A Proposal to Support Traceability in Rigorous IS Development.

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