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Z User Group: ZUG -  .

- Promotes use and development of Z formal specification language. History, activities, constitution, committee members, officers, large archive, tools, standardization, descriptions, meeting and conference notices, many links.

Combination and Implementation of Processes and Data: from CSP-OZ to Java - - Ph.D. thesis, University of Oldenburg, 2000. PostScript file.

Community Z Tools Initiative: CZT - - Proposed to Z community, now under discussion. Mail list archive, proposals, comments, responses.

A Comparison of Z and VDM with B/AMN - - Compares Z, Vienna Development Method (VDM), and Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) of B-Method; favors AMN. Descriptions, code samples. By B-Core, UK.

MOBY - - Official page. C++ class library, basis of three tools: Moby/PLC, Moby/SDL, and Moby/OZ graphical editor to build specifications in Z/Object-Z, allows structured development via hierarchy concepts, handles many text formats.

Object-Z Page - - Object-oriented extension of Z formal specification language, developed by research team at University of Queensland. Brief description, links, FAQ, tool support, publications, book reference.

Professor Jonathan Bowen - - ZUG webmaster; Computing Professor, South Bank University, heads Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Interests: FM, safety-critical systems, Z, provably correct systems, and rapid prototyping via logic programming. 1994 Babbage Premium award winner.

RoZ - - Named after Rosetta stone. Gives formal Z specification from annotated UML diagram, integrates data specification in UML with formal annotation in Z, Object-Z. Descriptions, downloads, documents, list of papers, links.

Standard for Z Notation - - International Z Notation standardization effort finished in 2002 and yielded The ISO/IEC Z Standard. Brief description, links to ISO, panel members, meeting minutes, FAQ, committee drafts.

TCOZ Page - - Timed Communicating Object-Z integrates Object-Z and Timed CSP, for modeling state, concurrent events, real-time behavior, and structuring and decomposing systems to control complexity. Description, publications, book list.

Z Family on the Web with Their UML Photos - - Treats building lightweight tools such as Web browser systems for formal specifications and methods. School of Computing, National University of Singapore. January, 2001; as postcript, and pdf files.

Z from FOLDOC - - Entry with links to several related concepts to aid learning.

The Z Notation - - The formal specification notation Z is based on Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and first order predicate logic. Entry from World Wide Web Virtual Library; descriptions, many links.

The Z Notation - - The World Wide Web Virtual Library entry for the Z formal specification language, providing links to resources around the world.

ZB2002 - - The 2nd International Z and B Conference, Grenoble, France, 23-25 January 2002. The 13th International Z User Meeting, The 4th International Conference on the B Method. Proceedings, Tutorials and Education Session, RCS'02 Workshop.

ZB2003 - - The 3rd International Conference of B and Z Users, 4-6 June 2003, Turku, Finland. The 14th International Z User Meeting, The 5th International Conference on the B Method. Theme, speakers, call for papers, submissions, location, committees, tools and exhibitions.

ZETA System - - Environment to develop Z specification documents; integrated tool framework to edit, analyze, animate specifications, and formalisms mapped to Z; 5 tools (ESZ Checker, ZAP Compiler, Adaptors: LaTeX, HOL-Z, SMV), 2 GUIs (Emacs, Java). [Open Source, GPL.

Z/EVES - - Front-end to EVES verification system, integrates leading specification notation and state-of-art automated deduction. Descriptions, documents, screenshots, download, links, User Group; Z Browser for use under Windows and using web browsers.