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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue
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Front Matter
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The Mathematical Paradigm
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Front Matter
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Elaborating the Paradigm
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Front Matter
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Challenges, Limits, and Alternatives
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Front Matter
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Focus on Formal Verification
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About this book
Disagreement over the place of formal methods in computer science has recently arisen in the form of renewed interest in the nature and capacity of program verification as a method for establishing the reliability of software systems. A paper that appeared in Communications of the ACM entitled, `Program Verification: The Very Idea', by James H. Fetzer triggered an extended debate that has been discussed in several journals and that has endured for several years, engaging the interest of computer scientists (both theoretical and applied) and of other thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds who want to understand computer science as a domain of inquiry.
The editors of this collection have brought together many of the most interesting and important studies that contribute to answering questions about the nature and the limits of computer science. These include early papers advocating the mathematical paradigm by McCarthy, Naur, R. Floyd, and Hoare (in Part I), others that elaborate the paradigm by Hoare, Meyer, Naur, and Scherlis and Scott (in Part II), challenges, limits and alternatives explored by C. Floyd, Smith, Blum, and Naur (in Part III), and recent work focusing on formal verification by DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis, Fetzer, Cohn, and Colburn (in Part IV). It provides essential resources for further study.
This volume will appeal to scientists, philosophers, and laypersons who want to understand the theoretical foundations of computer science and be appropriately positioned to evaluate the scope and limits of the discipline.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA
Timothy R. Colburn
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Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA
James H. Fetzer
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IBM Health Industry Marketing, Atlanta, USA
Terry L. Rankin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Program Verification
Book Subtitle: Fundamental Issues in Computer Science
Editors: Timothy R. Colburn, James H. Fetzer, Terry L. Rankin
Series Title: Studies in Cognitive Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1793-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1965-8Published: 31 January 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4789-0Published: 02 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1793-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-0780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 458
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Optimization, Philosophy of Science