Wided Ghardallou, Hessamaldin Mohammadi, Richard C. Linger, Mark Pleszkoch, JiMeng Loh, Ali Mili
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Abstract
Invariant relations are used to analyze while loops; while their primary application is to derive the function of a loop, they can also be used to derive loop invariants, weakest preconditions, strongest postconditions, sufficient conditions of correctness, necessary conditions of correctness, and termination conditions of loops. In this paper we present two generic invariant relations that capture the semantics of loops whose loop body applies affine transformations on numeric variables.
期刊介绍:
Acta Informatica provides international dissemination of articles on formal methods for the design and analysis of programs, computing systems and information structures, as well as related fields of Theoretical Computer Science such as Automata Theory, Logic in Computer Science, and Algorithmics.
Topics of interest include:
• semantics of programming languages
• models and modeling languages for concurrent, distributed, reactive and mobile systems
• models and modeling languages for timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems
• specification, program analysis and verification
• model checking and theorem proving
• modal, temporal, first- and higher-order logics, and their variants
• constraint logic, SAT/SMT-solving techniques
• theoretical aspects of databases, semi-structured data and finite model theory
• theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, description logic
• automata theory, formal languages, term and graph rewriting
• game-based models, synthesis
• type theory, typed calculi
• algebraic, coalgebraic and categorical methods
• formal aspects of performance, dependability and reliability analysis
• foundations of information and network security
• parallel, distributed and randomized algorithms
• design and analysis of algorithms
• foundations of network and communication protocols.