Name
Title | ||
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An inconsistency in procedures, parameters, and substitution in the refinement calculus |
Abstract | ||
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Morgan and Back have proposed different formalisations of procedures and parameters in the context of techniques of program development based on refinement. In this paper, we investigate a surprising and intricate relationship between these works and the substitution operator that renames the free variables of a program. In this study, we reveal an inconsistency in Morgan's refinement calculus and show that Back's formalisation of procedures does not have the same problem. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
1999 | 10.1016/S0167-6423(97)00015-4 | Sci. Comput. Program. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
parameters,procedures,refinement calculus,program development,formal methods,formal method,computer programming | Programming language,Refinement calculus,Free variables and bound variables,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Formal specification,Program development,Operator (computer programming),Formal methods,Computer programming,Software development | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
33 | 1 | Science of Computer Programming |
Citations | PageRank | References |
14 | 1.16 | 4 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Cavalcanti | 1 | 668 | 59.95 |
| Augusto Sampaio | 2 | 501 | 43.38 |
| Jim Woodcock | 3 | 534 | 77.08 |