Formal Program Development: IFIP TC2/WG 2.1 State-of-the-Art Report

This volume contains the background texts for an IFIP

State-of-the-Art Seminar on Formal Program Development, held

in early 1992 near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The book stems from work done by IFIP Working Group 2.1 on

Algorithmic Languages and Calculi. Since 1975, the Working

Group has increasingly focused on systematic approaches to

programming and on appropriate concepts and notations to

support such approaches. Today, the calculation of programs

from specifications constitutes the central theme ofthe

group's work. Thus the core interests of the group are:

- formal specification of solutions to problems, and

- formal development/calculationof programs from such

specifications.