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FMOODS
2003
15 years 7 months ago
A Syntax-Directed Hoare Logic for Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
This paper outlines a sound and complete Hoare logic for a sequential object-oriented language with inheritance and subtyping like Java. It describes a weakest precondition calculu...
Cees Pierik, Frank S. de Boer
ICFP
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A logical analysis of aliasing in imperative higher-order functions
We present a compositional program logic for call-by-value imperative higher-order functions with general forms of aliasing, which can arise from the use of reference names as fun...
Martin Berger, Kohei Honda, Nobuko Yoshida
CL
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Applications of Annotated Predicate Calculus to Querying Inconsistent Databases
Abstract. We consider the problem of specifying and computing consistent answers to queries against databases that do not satisfy given integrity constraints. This is done by simul...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Michael Kife...
KI
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Shallow Models for Non-iterative Modal Logics
Abstract. Modal logics see a wide variety of applications in artificial intelligence, e.g. in reasoning about knowledge, belief, uncertainty, agency, defaults, and relevance. From ...
Lutz Schröder, Dirk Pattinson
KR
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Situations, Si! Situation Terms, No!
The situation calculus, as proposed by McCarthy and Hayes, and developed over the last decade by Reiter and co-workers, is reconsidered. A new logical variant is proposed that cap...
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Hector J. Levesque