Synopses & Reviews
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of Abstract State Machines, B and Z, ABZ 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. The conference simultaneously incorporated the 15th International ASM Workshop, the 17th International Conference of Z Users and the 8th International Conference on the B Method. The 44 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The conference fosters the cross-fertilization of three rigorous methods for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems - both in academia and industry - namely Abstract State Machines, B, and Z. Covering a wide range of research spanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to tool support and practical applications, the contributions are organized in topical sections on abstract state machines, B papers, Z papers, ABZ short papers, and the papers of the Verified Software Repository Network (VSR-net) workshop.
Synopsis
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, Canada), and brought together researchers from the ASM and the B community (see: http: //www. dagstuhl. de/06191). The conference simultaneously incorporated the 15th International ASM Workshop, the 17th International Conference of Z Users and the 8th Inter- tional Conference on the B Method, which were present with separate Program Committees to select the papers published in separate tracks (see Chapters 2-4 of these proceedings). The conference covered a wide range of researchspanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to tool support and practical applications. It was split into three main parts: - Aone-daycommonprogramoffourinvitedlectures, seeChap. 1ofthesep- ceedings, and the presentationof three papers selected among the submitted contributions - Two days of contributed research papers and short presentations of work in progress, of industrial experience reports and of tool demonstrations, as documented in Chap.