Control Flow Semantics - Rilegato

Bakker, J. W. De; Vink, Erik De

 
9780262041546: Control Flow Semantics
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ISBN 10: 0262041545 ISBN 13: 9780262041546
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1996

Sinossi

Control Flow Semantics presents a unified, formal treatment of the semantics of a wide spectrum of control flow notions as found in sequential, concurrent, logic, object-oriented, and functional programming languages. Whereas in more traditional approaches one focuses on input/output behavior, in this work equal attention is devoted to finite and infinite computations, the latter motivated by the growing importance of reactive systems.

Knowledge of the comparative semantics of control structures is critical for the designers of programming languages, and it is difficult to choose from today's bewildering variety of control flow concepts (the ways in which a program specifies the successive steps to be taken during execution). Encyclopedic in scope, Control Flow Semantics provides comprehensive coverage of these concepts, developing operational and denotational models for control flow in 27 languages. In all cases, precise statements are given relating these models.

A rich body of semantic definitional techniques is presented, including (labeled) transition systems, higher-order definitions, resumptions and continuations, linear or sequence-based models, and models specified by domain equations. Moreover, both symbol-based or schematic languages—prevalent in the study of concurrency—and state-based or interpreted languages are considered. The book is founded on a unifying mathematical basis of metric structures, allowing the full modeling of infinite behavior, as well as the exploitation of some classical results, such as Banach's fixed point theorem. Perspectives on further topics, such as full abstractness, noninterleaving semantics for parallelism, and second-order programming are also included.

Foundations of Computing series

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Informazioni sull?autore

Erik de Vink is Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

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Editore
Mit Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0262041545
ISBN 13 
9780262041546
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
564
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780262518970: Control Flow Semantics

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ISBN 10:  026251897X ISBN 13:  9780262518970
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1996
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