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An improved recipe for specifying reactive systems in Z

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Evans, A.S. (1997). An improved recipe for specifying reactive systems in Z. In: Bowen, J.P., Hinchey, M.G., Till, D. (eds) ZUM '97: The Z Formal Specification Notation. ZUM 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1212. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027293

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