A tactic calculus - Abridged version

Formal Aspects of Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 479-489

  Martin, A P ^a,c   Gardiner, P H B ^b   Woodcock, J C P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Formal Systems Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angelic nondeterminism; Denotational semantics; Program transformation; Structural combinators; Tactics

Indexed keywords

DENOTATIONAL SEMANTICS; FORMAL SEMANTICS; NON DETERMINISM; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0030375798     PISSN: 09345043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01213535     Document Type: Article

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