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Quality software must be reusable, extensible, and reliable. Object-oriented programming purports to achieve these attributes by the use of classes and inheritance (informally). In this paper, we show how our existing approach to deductive synthesis of logic programs can serve as the basis for an object-oriented methodology for formal program development that achieves reusability, extensibility and correctness (formally).
The first author is on leave from the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK, and is supported by the European Union HCM project on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, contract no. 93/414.
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Lau, K.K., Ornaghi, M. (1996). Towards an object-oriented methodology for deductive synthesis of logic programs. In: Proietti, M. (eds) Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60939-3_11
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