Mathematical Studies of Information Processing: Proceedings of the International Conference, Kyoto, Japan, August 23-26, 1978

On the abstract specification and formal analysis of synchronization properties of concurrent systems.- On the formal specification and analysis of loosely connected processes.- Synchronized parallel computation and slowdown of translators.- Nondeterminism, parallelism and intermittent assertions.- A formal specification technique for abstract data types with parallelism.- Verifying parallel programs with resource allocation.- Equivalent key problem of the relational database model.- A file organization suitable for relational database operations.- Specified programming.- A calculus for proving properties of while-programs.- "E-correctness" of a set of "computation processes".- Program synthesis through G¿del's interpretation.- The vienna development method (VDM).- On a uniform formal description of data structures.- Extending an implementation language to a specification language.- Some design principles and theory for OBJ-0, a language to express and execute algebraic specifications of programs.- The specification and proof of correctness of interactive programs.- On a theory of decision problems in programming languages.- A representative strong equivalence class for accessible flowchart schemes.- Recursive programs as functions in a first order theory.