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B#: Toward a Synthesis between Z and B

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ZB 2003: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B (ZB 2003)

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In this paper, I present some ideas and principles underlying the realization of a new project called B#. This project follows the main ideas and principles already at work in B, but it also follows a number of older concepts developed in Z. In B#, the intent is to have a formal system to be used to model complex system in general, not only software systems.

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  1. Marseille, France

    Jean-Raymond Abrial (Consultant)

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  1. Laboratoire LSR-IMAG, CNRS, 681, rue de la Passerelle, BP 72, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Heres Cedex, France

    Didier Bert

  2. CISM, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA, UK

    Jonathan P. Bowen

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

    Steve King

  4. Department of Computer Science, Åbo Akademi University, Lemminkäineng. 14 A, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Marina Waldén

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Abrial, JR. (2003). B#: Toward a Synthesis between Z and B. In: Bert, D., Bowen, J.P., King, S., Waldén, M. (eds) ZB 2003: Formal Specification and Development in Z and B. ZB 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44880-2_12

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