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The notion of termination is examined, first for its physical observability, then for its part in six semantic formalisms, with emphasis on predicative semantics.
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Hehner, E.C.R., Malton, A.J. (1987). Termination Conventions and Comparative Semantics. In: Broy, M. (eds) Logic of Programming and Calculi of Discrete Design. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87374-4_4
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