This NATO volume presents a selection of leading research aimed at giving a foundation for combining logic and algebra for the purpose of specification under the aspects of automated deduction, proving techniques, concurrency and logic, abstract data types and operational semantics, and constructive methods.

Inhalt
Distributed Action Systems.- Lectures on: Classical Proofs as Programs.- Linear Logic: A Survey.- Some Proof-Theoretic Aspects of Logic Programming.- The Safety-Progress Classification.- The Polyadic ?-Calculus: A Tutorial.- An Introduction to Action Semantics.- Minimal Logic for Computable Functions.- Infinite Synchronous Concurrent Algorithms The Algebraic Specification and Verification of a Hardware Stack.- Four Lectures on Primitive Recursion.- Structured Specifications: Syntax, Semantics and Proof Calculus.