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Justifications for the Event-B Modelling Notation

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B 2007: Formal Specification and Development in B (B 2007)

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Event-B is a notation and method for discrete systems modelling by refinement. The notation has been carefully designed to be simple and easily teachable. The simplicity of the notation takes also into account the support by a modelling tool. This is important because Event-B is intended to be used to create complex models. Without appropriate tool support this would not be possible. This article presents justifications and explanations for the choices that have been made when designing the Event-B notation.

This research was carried out as part of the EU research project IST 511599 RODIN (Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems) http://rodin.cs.ncl.ac.uk.

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    Stefan Hallerstede

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    Jacques Julliand

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Hallerstede, S. (2006). Justifications for the Event-B Modelling Notation. In: Julliand, J., Kouchnarenko, O. (eds) B 2007: Formal Specification and Development in B. B 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4355. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11955757_7

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