Books

Books : reviews

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Constance Heitmeyer. Formal Methods: Panacea or Academic Poppycock?. 1997
• Bill Stoddart. The Event Calculus. 1997
• M. A. Hewitt, Colin M. O'Halloran, Chris T. Sennett. Experiences with PiZA, an animator for Z. 1997
• Steffen Helke, Thomas Neustupny, Thomas Santen. Automating Test Case Generation from Z Specifications with Isabelle. 1997
• Mark Saaltink. The Z/EVES System. 1997
• J. Anthony Hall. Taking Z Seriously. 1997
(extended abstract)
• Klaus Achatz, Wolfram Schulte. A Formal OO Method inspired by Fusion and Object-Z. 1997
• Jon G. Hall, Andrew Martin. W Reconstructed. 1997
• Ina Kraan. Using the Rippling Heuristic in Set Membership Proofs. 1997
• Egon Borger, S. Mazzanti. A Practical Method for Rigorously Controllable Hardware Design. 1997
• Kevin C. Lano, Stephen J. Goldsack, Juan C. Bicarregui, Stuart J. H. Kent. Integrating VDM++ and Real-Time System Design. 1997
• Michael J. Butler. An Approach to the Design of Distributed Systems with B AMN. 1997
• Kevin C. Lano. Specifying Reactive Systems in B AMN. 1997
• Andy S. Evans. An Improved Recipe for Specifying Reactive Systems in Z. 1997
• Mark d'Inverno, Michael Hu. A Z Specification of the Soft-Link Hypertext Model. 1997
• Jonathan Jacky, Jonathan Unger, Michael Patrick, David Reid, Ruedi Risler. Experience with Z developing a Control Program for a Radiation Therapy Machine. 1997
• John C. Knight, Susan S. Brilliant. Preliminary Evaluation of a Formal Approach to User Interface Specification. 1997
• Paolo Ciancarini, Cecilia Mascolo. Analysing and Refining an Architectural Style. 1997
• John Derrick, Eerke A. Boiten, Howard Bowman, Maarten Steen. Weak Refinement in Z. 1997