Unifying Theories of Undefinedness in UTP / Jim Woodcock, Victor Bandur --; Unifying Theories of Programming with Monads / Jeremy Gibbons --; Circus Time with Reactive Designs / Kun Wei, Jim Woodcock, Ana Cavalcanti --; Algebra Unifies Operational Calculi / Stephan van Staden, Tony Hoare --; A Probabilistic Theory of Designs Based on Distributions / Riccardo Bresciani, Andrew Butterfield --; The Logic of U ʺ(TP)² / Andrew Butterfield --; Conscriptions: A New Relational Model for Sequential Computations / Steve Dunne --; Mechanical Approach to Linking Operational Semantics and Algebraic Semantics for Verilog Using Maude / Huibiao Zhu, Peng Liu, Jifeng He, Shengchao Qin --; Unifying Operational Semantics with Algebraic Semantics for Instantaneous Reactions / Chengcheng Wu, Yongxin Zhao, Huibiao Zhu --; Higher-Order UTP for a Theory of Methods / Frank Zeyda, Ana Cavalcanti --; Denotational Semantics for a Probabilistic Timed Shared-Variable Language / Huibiao Zhu, Jeff W. Sanders, Jifeng He, Shengchao Qin.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2012, held in Paris, France, in August 2012, co-located with the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2012. The 8 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions.