The ABZ 2008 conference was held in London during September 16-18, 2008. The conference aimed at contributing to the cross-fertilization of three rigorous methods that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and so- waresystems, namely, abstractstate machines, B, andZ. It followedonfromthe Dagstuhl seminar on Rigorous Methods for Software Construction and Ana- sis, which was organized in May 2006 by Jean-Raymond Abrial (ETH Zur ] ich, Switzerland) and Uwe Gl] asser (Simon Fraser University - Burnaby,...
The ABZ 2008 conference was held in London during September 16-18, 2008. The conference aimed at contributing to the cross-fertilization of three rigo...
However, the contributions re?ect the extensive discussions we had during the two weeks in Lipari. Allcontributions, writtenbetweenAugust2007andJanuary2008, havebeen reviewed, revisedandreviewedagainduringtheperiodFebruary August2008. We thank the 21 reviewers for their considerable and very constructive work, althoughasusualtheyhavetoremainanonymous.Lastbutnotleastwethank theauthorsfortheircommitmenttothisvolume.
However, the contributions re?ect the extensive discussions we had during the two weeks in Lipari. Allcontributions, writtenbetweenAugust2007andJanuar...
