Reasoning about Graph Programs

Detlef Plump
(The University of York, United Kingdom)

GP 2 is a non-deterministic programming language for computing by graph transformation. One of the design goals for GP 2 is syntactic and semantic simplicity, to facilitate formal reasoning about programs. In this paper, we demonstrate with four case studies how programmers can prove termination and partial correctness of their solutions. We argue that GP 2's graph transformation rules, together with induction on the length of program executions, provide a convenient framework for program verification.

In Andrea Corradini and Hans Zantema: Proceedings 9th International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs (TERMGRAPH 2016), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 8, 2016, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 225, pp. 35–44.
Published: 10th September 2016.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.225.6 bibtex PDF
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