Abstract

AbstractIn the paper we investigate the expressibility of partial predicates in the Kleene algebra extended with the composition of predicate complement and give a necessary and sufficient condition of this expressibility in terms of the existence of an optimal solution of an optimization problem. We also investigate the expressibility in the first-order Kleene algebra with predicate complement. The obtained results may be useful for software verification using an extension of the Floyd-Hoare logic for partial pre- and postconditions. KeywordsFormal methodsSoftware verificationPartial predicateFloyd-Hoare logic

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