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A formalism for reasoning about fair termination

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Fair termination can be expressed, hence reasoned about, in Park's monotone μ-calculus, and the fair weakest precondition operator for boolean guarded do-loops is expressed.

The research reported in this paper originated during a visit to the Technion, Haifa, made possible by a grant from its department of Computer Science.

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  1. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Willem P. de Roever

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de Roever, W.P. (1982). A formalism for reasoning about fair termination. In: Kozen, D. (eds) Logics of Programs. Logic of Programs 1981. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0025777

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