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The paper introduces a notion of a context institution. The notion is explicitly illustrated by two standard examples. Morphism between context institutions are introduced, thus yielding a category of context institutions. Some expected constructions on context institutions are presented as functors from this category. The potential usefulness of these notions is illustrated by one such a construction, yielding a Hoare logic for an arbitrary small context institution satisfying mild extra assumptions.
This work was partially supported by the KBN Grant No. 2 P301 007 04
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Pawłowski, W. (1996). Context institutions. In: Haveraaen, M., Owe, O., Dahl, OJ. (eds) Recent Trends in Data Type Specification. ADT COMPASS 1995 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61629-2_57
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