VDM '87 VDM — A Formal Method at Work [electronic resource] : VDM-Europe Symposium 1987 Brussels, Belgium, March 23–26, 1987 Proceedings / edited by Dines Bjørner, Cliff B. Jones, Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh, Erich J. Neuhold.

VDM: Origins, hopes, and achievements -- Experience using VDM in STC -- VDM in three generations of Ada formal descriptions -- Experience with VDM in NORSK DATA -- Using VDM in an Object-Oriented development method for Ada software -- The stepwise development of software development graphs — Meta-programming VDM developments -- Heap storage specification and development -- VDM as a specification method for telecommunications software -- Support environments for VDM -- Development and application of a META IV compiler -- From VDM to RAISE -- Denotational engineering or from denotations to syntax -- A type model for VDM -- A formal description of object-oriented programming using VDM -- VDM proof obligations and their justification -- Mathematical structures and their morphisms in Meta-IV -- Objectives of the British Standardisation of a language to support the Vienna development method -- Use of VDM within CCITT -- A formal semantics for a DataFlow Machine — Using VDM -- to the VDM tutorial -- Specification by data types -- Data reification and program decomposition.