
Comparative Metric Semantics of Programming Languages
Nondeterminism and Recursion
Franck van Breughel(Author)
Birkhauser Boston Inc (Publisher)
Published on 18. December 1997
Book
Hardback
XX, 220 pages
978-0-8176-3927-3 (ISBN)
Description
During the last three decades several different styles of semantics for program ming languages have been developed. This book compares two of them: the operational and the denotational approach. On the basis of several exam ples we show how to define operational and denotational semantic models for programming languages. Furthermore, we introduce a general technique for comparing various semantic models for a given language. We focus on different degrees of nondeterminism in programming lan guages. Nondeterminism arises naturally in concurrent languages. It is also an important concept in specification languages. In the examples discussed, the degree of non determinism ranges from a choice between two alternatives to a choice between a collection of alternatives indexed by a closed interval of the real numbers. The former arises in a language with nondeterministic choices. A real time language with dense choices gives rise to the latter. We also consider the nondeterministic random assignment and parallel composition, both couched in a simple language. Besides non determinism our four example languages contain some form of recursion, a key ingredient of programming languages.
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Edition
1998 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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XX, 220 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8176-3927-3 (9780817639273)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-4160-7
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Content
Nondeterminism and recursion.- Operational semantics.- Denotational semantics.- Metric spaces.- Comparative semantics.- Bibliographic notes.- I.- 1 Domain equations.- 2 Linear and branching domains.- II.- 3 Operational semantics.- 4 Nondeterministic choice.- 5 Random assignment.- III.- 6 Generalized finiteness conditions.- 7 Dense choice.- 8 Second order communication.- A Metric spaces.- A.1 Metrics.- A.2 Completeness and contractiveness.- A.3 Hyperspaces.- A.4 Nonexpansive functions.- A.5 Bibliographic notes.- Author index.