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Record Nr.

UNINA9910506386303321

Autore

Schreiner Wolfgang <1967->

Titolo

Thinking Programs : Logical Modeling and Reasoning About Languages, Data, Computations, and Executions / / by Wolfgang Schreiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-80507-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (660 pages)

Collana

Texts & Monographs in Symbolic Computation, A Series of the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, , 2197-8409

Disciplina

005.1015113

Soggetti

Mathematical logic

Computer science - Mathematics

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Mathematics of Computing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I The Foundations -- Syntax and Semantics -- The Language of Logic -- The Art of Reasoning -- Building Models -- Recursion -- Part II The Higher Planes -- Abstract Data Types -- Programming Languages -- Computer Programs -- Concurrent Systems -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes some basic principles that allow developers of computer programs (computer scientists, software engineers, programmers) to clearly think about the artifacts they deal with in their daily work: data types, programming languages, programs written in these languages that compute from given inputs wanted outputs, and programs that describe continuously executing systems. The core message is that clear thinking about programs can be expressed in a single universal language, the formal language of logic. Apart from its universal elegance and expressiveness, this “logical” approach to the formal modeling of and reasoning about computer programs has another advantage: due to advances in computational logic (automated theorem proving, satisfiability solving, model checking), nowadays much of this process can be supported by software. This book



therefore accompanies its theoretical elaborations by practical demonstrations of various systems and tools thatare based on respectively make use of the presented logical underpinnings.