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Standards, if widely accepted, encourage the development of tools and techniques to process objects conforming to that standard. This paper describes a number of experiments using available tools to process text containing Z specifications adhering to the existing Z Interchange Format. The experiments resulted in tools that could be used in specific programming environments where Z was used to describe software systems.
The research described in this paper was supported by IBM Canada, the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario and Inforium Technologies Inc.
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Germán, D.M., Cowan, D.D. (1995). Experiments with the Z interchange format and SGML. In: Bowen, J.P., Hinchey, M.G. (eds) ZUM '95: The Z Formal Specification Notation. ZUM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60271-2_122
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