Overview
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Suad Alagić
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Department of Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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Michael A. Arbib
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Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 1-14
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 15-56
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 57-114
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 115-151
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 152-185
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
Pages 186-220
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- Suad Alagić, Michael A. Arbib
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Back Matter
Pages 249-294
About this book
The major goal of this book is to present the techniques of top-down program design and verification of program correctness hand-in-hand. It thus aims to give readers a new way of looking at algorithms and their design, synthesizing ten years of research in the process. It provides many examples of program and proof development with the aid of a formal and informal treatment of Hoare's method of invariants. Modem widely accepted control structures and data structures are explained in detail, together with their formal definitions, as a basis for their use in the design of correct algorithms. We provide and apply proof rules for a wide range of program structures, including conditionals, loops, procedures and recur sion. We analyze situations in which the restricted use of gotos can be justified, providing a new approach to proof rules for such situations. We study several important techniques of data structuring, including arrays, files, records and linked structures. The secondary goal of this book is to teach the reader how to use the programming language Pascal. This is the first text to teach Pascal pro gramming in a fashion which not only includes advanced algorithms which operate on advanced data structures, but also provides the full axiomatic definition of Pascal due to Wirth and Hoare. Our approach to the language is very different from that of a conventional programming text.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Suad Alagić
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Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Michael A. Arbib
