Abstract Computing Machines : A Lambda Calculus Perspective

Werner Kluge

ISBN 10: 3540211462 / ISBN 13: 9783540211464

Editore: Springer, Berlin, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer, 2005

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book addresses ways and means of organizing computations, highlighting the relationship between algorithms and the basic mechanisms and runtime structures necessary to execute them using machines. It completely abstracts from concrete programming languages and machine architectures, taking instead the lambda calculus as the basic programming and program execution model to design various abstract machines for its correct implementation.The emphasis is on fully normalizing machines based on full-fledged beta-reductions as essential prerequisites for symbolic computations that treat functions and variables truly as first-class objects. Their weakly normalizing counterparts are shown to be functional abstract machines that sacrifice the flavors of full beta-reductions for decidedly simpler runtime structures and improved runtime efficiency. Further downgrading of the lambda calculus leads to classical imperative machines that permit side-effecting operations on the runtime environment.

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• Titolo: Abstract Computing Machines : A Lambda Calculus Perspective
• Editore: Springer, Berlin, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540211462
• ISBN 13: 9783540211464
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 188 A x 35 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 188 millimetri di altezza per 35 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 712 grammi

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Riassunto

The book emphasizes the design of full-fledged, fully normalizing lambda calculus machinery, as opposed to the just weakly normalizing machines.

Informazioni sull?autore

Received a Dr. rer. nat. degree in physics from the Technical University Munich/Germany in 1968; worked in industrie/research institutes at the central laboratories of Siemens AG between 1963 and 1968, at Bell Northern Research Ltd in Ottawa/Canada between 1969, and 1972 at the Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung in St. Augustin/Germany between 1973 and 1978; became an associate professor of computer science at the University of Bonn/Germany in 1978; became a full professor of computer science at the University of Kiel/Germany retired in 2003.