TCS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
The refinement calculus of Back, Morgan, Morris, and others is based on monotone predicate transformers (weakest preconditions) where conjunctions stand for demonic choices betwee...
ECAI
2008
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
2008
Springer
Many forms of reasoning about actions and planning can be reduced to regression, the computation of the weakest precondition a state has to satisfy to guarantee the satisfaction of...
ADC
1993
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1993
Springer
We present a procedure for deriving the weakest precondition for a database update and an integrity constraint. We show how to simplify the weakest precondition to produce a condi...
SAS
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the existence of a deductive veri cation method based on a logic that describes pointer aliasing. The main idea of such a method is that the ...