"...promotes specification and programming on the basis of Horn logic with equality....His treatment of the subject differs from others in that he tries to capture the actual styles and applications of programming, neither too general with respect to the underlying logic, nor too restrictive for the practice of programming. He generalizes and unifies results from classical theorem-proving and term rewriting to provide proof methods tailored to declarative program synthesis and verification. Detailed examples accompany the development of the methods, whose use is supported by a documented prototyping system." Xiang Li, Mathematical Reviews

• Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Guards, generators and constructors; 3. Models and correctness; 4. Computing goal solutions; 5. Inductive expansion; 6. Directed expansion and reduction; 7. Implications of ground confluence; 8. Examples; 9. EXPANDER: inductive expansion in SML; References; Index.

"...promotes specification and programming on the basis of Horn logic with equality....His treatment of the subject differs from others in that he tries to capture the actual styles and applications of programming, neither too general with respect to the underlying logic, nor too restrictive for the practice of programming. He generalizes and unifies results from classical theorem-proving and term rewriting to provide proof methods tailored to declarative program synthesis and verification. Detailed examples accompany the development of the methods, whose use is supported by a documented prototyping system." Xiang Li, Mathematical Reviews

• Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Guards, generators and constructors; 3. Models and correctness; 4. Computing goal solutions; 5. Inductive expansion; 6. Directed expansion and reduction; 7. Implications of ground confluence; 8. Examples; 9. EXPANDER: inductive expansion in SML; References; Index.

"...promotes specification and programming on the basis of Horn logic with equality....His treatment of the subject differs from others in that he tries to capture the actual styles and applications of programming, neither too general with respect to the underlying logic, nor too restrictive for the practice of programming. He generalizes and unifies results from classical theorem-proving and term rewriting to provide proof methods tailored to declarative program synthesis and verification. Detailed examples accompany the development of the methods, whose use is supported by a documented prototyping system." Xiang Li, Mathematical Reviews

• Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Guards, generators and constructors; 3. Models and correctness; 4. Computing goal solutions; 5. Inductive expansion; 6. Directed expansion and reduction; 7. Implications of ground confluence; 8. Examples; 9. EXPANDER: inductive expansion in SML; References; Index.