Ott: Effective tool support for the working semanticist

Journal of Functional Programming

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-122

  Sewell, Peter ^a   Nardelli, Francesco Zappa ^b   Owens, Scott ^a   Peskine, Gilles ^a   Ridge, Thomas ^a   Sarkar, Susmit ^a   Strniša, Rok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TOOL; FORMAL MATHEMATICS; ISABELLE/HOL; MODULAR SPECIFICATIONS; MODULE SYSTEMS; PHASE CHANGE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PROOF ASSISTANT;

BIOMINERALIZATION; LATEXES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 77951122326     PISSN: 09567968     EISSN: 14697653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956796809990293     Document Type: Article

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