Treffer: A tutorial introduction to designs in Unifying Theories of Programming

Title:
A tutorial introduction to designs in Unifying Theories of Programming
Source:
IFM 2004 : integrated formal methods (Canterbury, 4-7 April 2004)Lecture notes in computer science. :40-66
Publisher Information:
Berlin: Springer, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 14 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, Canterbury, United Kingdom
ISSN:
0302-9743
Rights:
Copyright 2004 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.15758166
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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In their Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP), Hoare & He use the alphabetised relational calculus to give denotational semantics to a wide variety of constructs taken from different programming paradigms. A key concept in their programme is the design: the familiar precondition-postcondition pair that describes the contract between a programmer and a client. We give a tutorial introduction to the theory of alphabetised relations, and its sub-theory of designs. We illustrate the ideas by applying them to theories of imperative programming, including Hoare logic, weakest preconditions, and the refinement calculus.