Axiomatic categorical domain theory is crucial for understanding the meaning of programs and reasoning about them. This book is the first systematic account of the subject and studies mathematical structures suitable for modelling functional programming languages in an axiomatic (i.e. abstract) setting. In particular, the author develops theories of partiality and recursive types and applies them to the study of the metalanguage FPC; for example, enriched categorical models of the FPC are defined. Furthermore, FPC is considered as a programming language with a call-by-value operational semantics and a denotational semantics defined on top of a categorical model. To conclude, for an axiomatisation of absolute non-trivial domain-theoretic models of FPC, operational and denotational semantics are related by means of computational soundness and adequacy results. To make the book reasonably self-contained, the author includes an introduction to enriched category theory.
By:
Marcelo P. Fiore (University of Edinburgh) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 14 Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 190mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 460g ISBN:9780521602778 ISBN 10: 0521602777 Series:Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science Pages: 256 Publication Date:09 August 2004 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Axiomatic Domain Theory in Categories of Partial Maps
' ... the author succeeds in the difficult task of finding the right level of abstraction. Moreover, the exposition is very precise and technically outstanding.' Daniele Turi, Science of Computer Programming (1998)