Axiomatic semantics

Logic for proving computer program correctness

Subfields
Computational Lexical Lexis Lexicology Statistical Structural
Topics
Analysis Compositionality Context Prototype theory Force dynamics Semantic feature Semantic gap Theory of descriptions
Analysis
Latent Computational Machine learning
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Desktop File system Matching Parsing Querying web wiki Similarity

Semantics of
programming languages

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Action Algebraic Axiomatic Categorical Concurrency Denotational Game Operational Predicate transformational
Theory
Abstract interpretation Abstract semantic graph

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Axiomatic semantics is an approach based on mathematical logic for proving the correctness of computer programs.^[1] It is closely related to Hoare logic.

Axiomatic semantics define the meaning of a command in a program by describing its effect on assertions about the program state. The assertions are logical statements—predicates with variables, where the variables define the state of the program.