Z

Community Z Tools Initiative: CZT - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.martin/CZT/
Proposed to Z community, now under discussion. Mail list archive, proposals, comments, responses.

Standard for Z Notation - http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew.martin/zstandards/
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.

Object-Z Page - http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~smith/objectz.html
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.

RoZ - http://www-lsr.imag.fr/Les.Groupes/pfl/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.

ZB2002 - http://www-lsr.imag.fr/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.

Z User Group: ZUG - http://www.zuser.org/
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.

The Z Notation - http://www.zuser.org/z/
The World Wide Web Virtual Library entry for the Z formal specification language, providing links to resources around the world.

A Comparison of Z and VDM with B/AMN - http://www.b-core.com/ZVdmB.html
Compares Z, Vienna Development Method (VDM), and Abstract Machine Notation (AMN) of B-Method; favors AMN. Descriptions, code samples. By B-Core, UK.

Professor Jonathan Bowen - http://www.jpbowen.com/
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.

Z from FOLDOC - http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?Z
Entry with links to several related concepts to aid learning.

ZETA System - http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/zeta/
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 Family on the Web with Their UML Photos - http://nt-appn.comp.nus.edu.sg/fm/zml/TRA1-01.pdf
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.

TCOZ Page - http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dongjs/tcoz.html
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.

Combination and Implementation of Processes and Data: from CSP-OZ to Java - http://csd.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~wehrheim/Eatcs.ps
Ph.D. thesis, University of Oldenburg, 2000. PostScript file.

MOBY - http://theoretica.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~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.

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