Name: refinement calculus
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Author: back,wright
ISBN: 9780387984179

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Publisher

Springer

Author

back,wright

Language

English

Pages

519

ISBN

0387984178

ISBN13

9780387984179

Synopsis "refinement calculus"

much current research in computer science is concerned with two questions: is a program correct? and how can we improve a correct program preserving correctness? this latter question is known as the refinement of programs and the purpose of this book is to consider these questions in a formal setting. in fact, correctness turns out to be a special case of refinement and so the focus is on refinement. although a reasonable background knowledge is assumed from mathematics and cs, the book is a self-contained introduction suitable for graduate students and researchers coming to this subject for the first time. there are numerous exercises provided of varying degrees of challenge.