Algebra of program termination

  • Authors:
  • Henk Doornbos;Roland Backhouse

  • Affiliations:
  • EverMind, Groningen, The Netherlands;School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham

  • Venue:
  • Algebraic and coalgebraic methods in the mathematics of program construction
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Well-foundedness and inductive properties of relations are expressed in terms of fixed points. A class of fixed point equations, called "hylo" equations, is introduced. A methodology of recursive program design based on the use of hylo equations is presented. Current research on generalisations of well-foundedness and inductive properties of relations, making these properties relative to a datatype, is introduced.