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Third Dutch Specification Day

University of Twente, Enschede, NL, 21 March 1996

The full version of this announcement is available.

The theme of these Days is formal specification in computer science. Both formal techniques and their application in practice are addressed.

The program features four presentations by invited speakers. Material relevant to the presentations will be handed out.

The program (you find a few abstracts at the end of the full version of this announcement):

10.00 - 10.30:
Welcome, coffee
10.30 - 11.30:
Leslie Lamport (DEC Research): Specifying Systems: Some Impious Platitudes
11.30 - 12.30:
Muffy Thomas (University of Glasgow): Formal Specification and Analysis in Safety-Critical Systems
12.30 - 13.45:
Lunch
13.45 - 15.45:
Jean-Raymond Abrial (Independent consultant and researcher): Formal construction of the architecture of a software system, a case study with B.
15.45 - 16.15:
tea/coffee break
16.15 - 17.00:
Klaas Wijbrans (CMG): The BOS project: practical experiences with formal specification.