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A team at BT Labs has been using Z to tackle problems in telecommunications engineering for the last 3 years. We have increasingly found Z to be more satisfactory for use in some application areas than already standardised formal description techniques.
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Cusack, E. (1993). Using Z in Communications Engineering ( Invited Talk ). In: Bowen, J.P., Nicholls, J.E. (eds) Z User Workshop, London 1992. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3556-2_14
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