Equational reasoning about programs with general recursion and call-by-value semantics

Progress in Informatics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2013, Pages 19-46

  Kimmell, Garrin ^a   Stump, Aaron ^a   Eades, Harley D ^a   Fu, Peng ^a   Sheard, Tim ^d   Weirich, Stephanie ^b   Casinghino, Chris ^b   Sjöberg, Vilhelm ^c   Collins, Nathan ^d   Ahn, Ki Yung ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Languages; Theory; Verification

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVE TYPE THEORY; CURRY-HOWARD CORRESPONDENCE; DEPENDENTLY TYPED PROGRAMMING; EQUATIONAL REASONING; LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS; LANGUAGE DESIGN; LOGICAL SOUNDNESS; THEORY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DESIGN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; VERIFICATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84877641121     PISSN: 13498614     EISSN: 13498606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2201/NiiPi.2013.10.3     Document Type: Article

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