Mathematical Studies of Information Processing [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Conference Kyoto, Japan, August 23–26, 1978 / edited by E. K. Blum, M. Paul, S. Takasu.

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 Gödel'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.