Publisher Summary This chapter presents an introduction to some of the basic issues in the
study of program logics. The chapter describes various forms of first-order Dynamic Logic …

A syntax-directed formal system for the development of totally correct programs with respect
to an unfair shared-state parallel while-language is proposed. The system can be …

The “specification logic” of JC Reynolds is a partial-correctness logic for Algol 60-like
languages with procedures. It is interpreted here as an intuitionistic theory, using a form of …

PolyGoth is a distributed programming language that integrates the class abstraction of
languages like Simula, SmallTalk, Pool or Eiffel with a parallel block structuring concept and …

A display vector speeds up the access to nonlocal variables and display optimization is an
important issue for compiler design. There are two goals for display optimization:(i) placing …

This is an essay where the author expresses his views on applied denotational semantics. In
the author's opinion, whether a software system has or does not have a sufficiently abstract …

Program logics arise to provide logical foundations to the methods of verifying programs.
During the last few years there have been Investigated various program logics. looking for …

POLYGOTH is a distributed programming language that integrates the class abstraction of
languages like SIMULA, SMALLTALK, POOL or E1FFEL with a parallel block structuring …

This paper is concerned with the design of sound and complete proof systems for
programming languages. Originated by [5], proof systems are designed to verify correctness …