The Design of Well-Structured and Correct Programs by Suad Alagic
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.-
The Science of Programming
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A Theory of Objects
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Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes
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Computer Systems
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Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics
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Set Theory for Computing
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Beauty Is Our Business
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Parameterized Complexity
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A Discipline of Multiprogramming
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Asynchronous Circuits
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String-Rewriting Systems
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Error-Free Polynomial Matrix Computations
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Prototyping-Oriented Software Development
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An Introduction to Formal Language Theory
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The Synthesizer Generator
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Methods and Applications of Error-Free Computation
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Adaptive Information Processing
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Reliable Computer Systems
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Programming with Sets
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Programming in Modula-2
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Adaptive Signal Processing
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Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics
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Algorithmic Algebra
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Programming with Specifications
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Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
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Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models
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Algorithmic Language and Program Development
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Object-Oriented Database Programming
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The Design and Analysis of Algorithms
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Software Configuration Management Using Vesta
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The Origins of Digital Computers
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Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification
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What Computing Is All About
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ML with Concurrency
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The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual
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Language Equations
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On a Method of Multiprogramming
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Programming Methodology
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Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems
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Super-Recursive Algorithms
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Specification and Development of Interactive Systems
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Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics
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Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems
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Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code
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High Performance Discovery In Time Series
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Panoramic Vision
Michael Arbib is a professor of computer and information science, and director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Laboratory for Perpetual Robotics, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Brains, Machines, and Mathematics: The Metaphorical Brain: and Computers and the Cybernetic Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461262749 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461262747 |
| Title | The Design of Well-Structured and Correct Programs |
| Author | Suad Alagic |
| Series | Monographs In Computer Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2011-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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