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The B Abstract Machine Notation specification language, originally developed in the early and mid 1980s by J.R. Abrial and by research groups at BP Research, MATRA and GEC Alsthom, is currently attracting increasing interest in both industry and academia. It is one of the few “formal methods” which has robust, commercially available tool support for the entire development lifecycle from specification through to code generation, and it also inherits the advantages of its predecessor, Z, in being based on familiar and well-understood mathematical foundations.
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Lano, K. (1996). Introduction. In: The B Language and Method. Formal Approaches to Computing and Information Technology (FACIT). Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1494-9_1
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