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Program schemata technique for propositional program logics: A 30-year history

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A survey is presented of the so-called program schemata technique for proving the decidability of propositional program logics. This method is based on the reduction to versions of the problem of relative totality for nondeterministic Yanov schemata.

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Shilov, S.O. Shilova, A.Yu. Bernshtein, 2016, published in Programmirovanie, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 4.

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Shilov, N.V., Shilova, S.O. & Bernshtein, A.Y. Program schemata technique for propositional program logics: A 30-year history. Program Comput Soft 42, 239–256 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S036176881604006X

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