Contracts for concurrency

Formal Aspects of Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 305-318

  Nienaltowski, Piotr ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^b   Ostroff, Jonathan S ^c  

^a Praxis High Integrity Systems   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Design by contract; Object oriented programming; Partial correctness; Safety and liveness properties; SCOOP; Software verification

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY; DESIGN BY CONTRACT; PARTIAL CORRECTNESS; SAFETY AND LIVENESS PROPERTIES; SCOOP; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SEMANTICS; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING; VERIFICATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70350566811     PISSN: 09345043     EISSN: 1433299X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00165-007-0063-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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