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This book is a highly practical tutorial guide to the Z specification language and its role in software development. The book illustrates how familiar procedures and decisions can be made precise using mathematics. Beginning with a case study, this book is designed to be as self-contained as possible, taking the reader through the basic concepts in logic and set theory formulating precise ideas about software systems, and combines a formal approach with practical examples of its use in software development.
This text is about the formal specification language Z suitable for courses on Z and formal methods at first and second year undergraduate level. The book includes a tutorial introduction covering the basic mathematics of Z and provides four specification case studies.
Papers from the 17th International Colloquium held in England, July 1990. They cover all important areas of theoretical computer science, such as: computability, formal languages, computational complexity, data types and structures, term rewriting systems, robotics. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The mathematical concepts and notational conventions we know of as Z were first proposed around 1981. Its origins were in line with the objectives of the PRG - to establish a mathematical basis for program ming concepts and to verify the work by case studies with industry. Hence among early Z users some were from academic circles, with interests in the mathematical basis of programming; others came from industry and were involved with pilot projects and case studies linked with the Programming Research Group. Four years ago we had the first Z User Meeting, a fairly modest affair with representatives more or less equally divided between academia and industry. At the first meeting there were, ...