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The very first paper on Z [1] was published in 1980 (at the time, the name Z was not “invented”), then the book on the B method [2] was published in 1996, and, finally, the book on Event-B [3] was published in 2010. So, 30 years separate Z from Event-B. It is thus clear that I spent a significant time of my scientific professional life working with the same kind of subject in mind, roughly speaking specification languages. I do not know whether this kind of addiction is good or bad, but what I know is that I enjoyed it a lot.
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Abrial, JR. (2013). From Z to B and then Event-B: Assigning Proofs to Meaningful Programs. In: Johnsen, E.B., Petre, L. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38613-8_1
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