The B method is a means for specifying, designing and coding software systems. The long-awaited B Book is the standard reference for everything concerning this method. It contains the mathematical basis on which it is founded, the precise definitions of the notations used, and a large number of examples illustrating its use in practice. J.-R. Abrial, the inventor of B, has written the book in such a way that it can be used for self-study or for reference. It is in four parts, the first dealing with the mathematical foundations, including a systematic construction of predicate logic and set...

This book, with the CD-ROM included, is the documentation of a unique collaborative effort in evaluating formal methods for usage under industrial constraints: the major techniques for formally supported specification, design, and verification of large programs and complex systems are applied to a non-trivial and non-academic problem which is typical for industrial informal requirements specifications.
The 21 papers included in the book, together with an introduction and competition report, were selected from 33 candidate solutions. This book comes with a CD-ROM containing, besides the...

Egon B] orger Tribute to Egon B] orger on th the Occasion of his 60 Birthday 1 2 Jean-Raymond Abrial and Uwe Glasser ] 1 jrabrial@neuf. fr 2 glaesser@cs. sfu. ca Egon B] orger was born on May 13, 1946, in Westfalia (Germany). After the cl- sic baccalaur eat, from 1965-1971 he studied philosophy, logic and mathematics at the Sorbonne (Paris, France), Institut Sup erieur de Philosophie de Louvain (Belgium), Universit e de Louvain and Universitat ] Munster ] (Germany), where he got his doctoral degree and in 1976 his Habilitation in mathematics. The themes of his doctoral dissertation,...