theoretical computer science, an algorithm is correct with respect to a specification if it behaves as specified. Best explored is functional correctness, which...

or Correctness may refer to: What is true Accurate; Error-free Correctness (computer science), in theoretical computer science Political correctness, a...

In computing, compiler correctness is the branch of computer science that deals with trying to show that a compiler behaves according to its language...

the standards of correct reasoning often embody fallacies. Systems of logic are theoretical frameworks for assessing the correctness of arguments. Logic...

for correctness. Despite the title, most of the article is on Dijkstra’s attempt to put computer science into a wider perspective within science, teaching...

Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...

Logic in computer science covers the overlap between the field of logic and that of computer science. The topic can essentially be divided into three...

chief aim was "a rigorous standard for proofs about computer programs, including proofs of correctness, equivalence, and termination". Floyd further wrote:...

This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...

methods, among other uses. Component-based software engineering Correctness (computer science) Defensive programming Fail-fast system Formal methods Hoare...

In computer science, resource starvation is a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to...

In mathematical optimization and computer science, heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more quickly...

In software engineering and computer science, abstraction is the process of generalizing concrete details, such as attributes, away from the study of objects...

In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation...

Heuristic may also refer to: Heuristic (computer science), a problem-solving technique that produces approximately correct solutions Heuristic (engineering)...

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communications pattern. The base goals of concurrent programming include correctness, performance and robustness. Concurrent systems such as Operating systems...

In computer science, an expression is a syntactic entity in a programming language that may be evaluated to determine its value. It is a combination of...

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming-CP97. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1330. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 222–236. doi:10.1007/BFb0017442...

called MSR-type algorithms which have been used widely in fields from computer science to control theory. Bitcoin uses proof of work, a difficulty adjustment...

In computer programming, a parameter, a.k.a. formal argument, is a variable that represents an argument, a.k.a. actual argument, a.k.a. actual parameter...

In computer science, robustness is the ability of a computer system to cope with errors during execution and cope with erroneous input. Robustness can...

In computer science, program derivation is the derivation of a program from its specification, by mathematical means. To derive a program means to write...

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Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Aarti Gupta received her undergraduate degree from IIT Delhi, India and PhD in computer science from Carnegie...

In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to...

In computer science, a loop variant is a mathematical function defined on the state space of a computer program whose value is monotonically decreased...

into its correctness. However, this approach of using a computer program to prove the output of another program correct does not appeal to computer proof...

In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...

A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of both particles and...