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Hoare's logic for nondeterministic regular programs: A nonstandard completeness theorem

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1985)

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The paper characterizes formal derivability in a Hoare's calculus for nondeterministic regular programs, by means of a nonstandard semantics which allows certain “infinitely long computations“. Our result generalizes a previous one of Csirmaz [10] and uses some properties of a normal form for regular programs which are perhaps interesting in its own right.

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    Ma T. Hortalá-González & M. Rodríguez-Artalejo

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Hortalá-González, M.T., Rodríguez-Artalejo, M. (1985). Hoare's logic for nondeterministic regular programs: A nonstandard completeness theorem. In: Brauer, W. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015752

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