1st Edition

Semantics of Programming Languages and Model Theory

By Manfred Droste, Yuri Gurevich Copyright 1993
416 Pages
by CRC Press

A conference on Semantics of Programming Languages and Model Theory was held at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, SchloB Dägstuhl, during June 23-29, 1991. Participants from 10 countries represented a wide range of interests on the subject where the interaction of different fields is so fruitful. In particular, methods from algebra, logic and order theory were... Read more
Preface, A formal specification of PARLOG, The meaning of specifications 11: Set-theoretic specification, Petri nets and automata with concurrency relations: An adjunction, Concurrent automata, prime event structures and universal domains, Synthesis of nondeterministic asynchronous automata, A cartesian closed category of parallel algorithms between Scott-domains, Observable modules and power domain constructions, The Smyth-completion of a quasi-uniform space, What is a state of a system? (An outline), Current trends in the semantics of data flow, Computing the canonical representation of a finite lattice, A theory of unary pairfunctions, A lattice interpretation of database dependencies, Semantics in an extended entity-relationship model, Index

Biography

Manfred Droste Universitiit Gesamthochschule, Essen Germany and Yuri Gurevich University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.