On Hoare Logic and Kleene Algebra with Tests

ACM Transactions on Computational Logic

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-76

  Kozen, Dexter ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Dynamic logic; Hoare logic; Kleene algebra; Kleene algebra with tests; Languages; specification; Theory; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876887451     PISSN: 15293785     EISSN: 1557945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/343369.343378     Document Type: Article

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