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Record Nr.

UNISA996466079803316

Titolo

Mathematics of Program Construction [[electronic resource] ] : Second International Conference, Oxford, U.K., June 29 - July 3, 1992. Proceedings / / edited by Richard S. Bird, C.Carroll Morgan, James C.P. Woodcock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1993

ISBN

3-540-47613-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 1993.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 380 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 669

Disciplina

005.1/01/5113

Soggetti

Software engineering

Computers

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Computer programming

Algorithms

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Theory of Computation

Applications of Mathematics

Programming Techniques

Software Engineering

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Extended calculus of constructions as a specification language -- On the economy of doing Mathematics -- Pretty-printing: An exercise in functional programming -- True concurrency: Theory and practice -- Programming for behaviour -- Calculating a path algorithm -- Solving optimisation problems with catamorphisms -- A time-interval calculus -- Conservative fixpoint functions on a graph -- An algebraic construction of predicate transformers -- Upwards and downwards accumulations on trees -- Distributing a class of sequential programs



-- (Relational) programming laws in the boom hierarchy of types -- A logarithmic implementation of flexible arrays -- Designing arithmetic circuits by refinement in Ruby -- An operational semantics for the guarded command language -- Shorter paths to graph algorithms -- Logical specifications for functional programs -- Inorder traversal of a binary heap and its inversion in optimal time and space -- A calculus for predicative programming -- Derivation of a parallel matching algorithm -- Modular reasoning in an object-oriented refinement calculus -- An alternative derivation of a binary heap construction function -- A derivation of Huffman's algorithm.

Sommario/riassunto

Not very long ago, the uninhibited use of mathematics in the development of software was regarded as something for academics alone. Today, there is moreand more interest from industry in formal methods based on mathematics. This interest has come from the success of a number of experiments on real industrial applications. Thus, there is not only a belief, but also evidence, that the study of computer programs as mathematical objects leads to more efficient methods for constructing them. The papers in this volume were presented at the Second International Conference on the Mathematics of Program Construction, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, June 29 - July 3, 1992. The conference was organized by the Oxford University Programming Research Group, and continued the theme set by the first - the use of crisp, clear mathematics in the discovery and design of algorithms. The second conference gives evidence of the ever-widening impact of precise mathematical methods in program development. There are papers applying mathematics not only to sequential programs but also to parallel and on-current applications, real-time and reactive systems, and to designs realised directly in hardware. The volume includes 5 invited papers and 19 contributed papers.