Category Theory and Computer Programming

Tutorial and Workshop, Guildford, U.K., September 16 - 20, 1985. Proceedings

532 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Categories.- Elements of categorical reasoning : Products and coproducts and some other (co-)limits.- Functors and natural transformations.- Adjunctions.- Cartesian closure - Higher types in categories.- Algebra categorically.- Category theory and logic.- Categories, data types, and imperative languages.- Category theory and programming language semantics: An overview.- Weakest preconditions: Categorical insights.- A categorical view of weakest liberal preconditions.- Functor-category semantics of programming languages and logics.- Finite approximation of spaces.- Categories of partial morphisms and the ?P-calculus.- A note on distributive laws and power domains.- Category theory and models for parallel computation.- Categorical models of process cooperation.- Galois connections and computer science applications.- A study in the foundations of programming methodology: Specifications, institutions, charters and parchments.- Bits and pieces of the theory of institutions.- Extended ML: An institution-independent framework for formal program development.- Behavioural program specification.- Key extensions of abstract data types, final algebras, and database semantics.- Theories as categories.- Internal completeness of categories of domains.- Formalising the network and hierarchical data models - an application of categorical Logic.- A categorical unification algorithm.- Computing with categories.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Informatik Theoretische Informatik
• ISBN: 9783540171621
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.1986
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Axel Poigne, Samson Abramsky, David Pitt, David Rydeheard