Abstract Software Specifications [electronic resource] : 1979 Copenhagen Winter School January 22 – February 2, 1979 Proceedings / edited by Dines Bjøorner.

Abstract Architecture -- Foundations of denotational semantics -- Models of programming language concepts -- Formalization of data base models -- Experiments in block-structured GOTO language modeling: — EXITs versus continuations -- An introduction to data algebras -- Time sequences as a tool for describing program behaviour -- The semantics of clear, a specification language -- An example of hierarchical program specification -- Modular program construction using abstractions -- On the structure of application programs -- Abstract objects as abstract data types -- Design and analysis of highly parallel and distributed systems -- On the semantics of fair parallelism -- Dijkstra's predicate transformers and smyth's powerdomains -- Banquet talk.