Abstract Data Types and Software Validation

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1978, Pages 1048-1064

  Guttag, John V ^a   Horowitz, Ellis ^a   Musser, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

abstract data type; correctness proof; data structure; data type; specification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0018050383     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/359657.359666     Document Type: Article

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