Nominal Sets
Names and Symmetry in Computer Science
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2013
978-1-107-24018-6 (ISBN)
Description
Nominal sets provide a promising new mathematical analysis of names in formal languages based upon symmetry, with many applications to the syntax and semantics of programming language constructs that involve binding, or localising names. Part I provides an introduction to the basic theory of nominal sets. In Part II, the author surveys some of the applications that have developed in programming language semantics (both operational and denotational), functional programming and logic programming. As the first book to give a detailed account of the theory of nominal sets, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 20 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
2,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-107-24018-6 (9781107240186)
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Book
05/2013
Cambridge University Press
€77.60
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Person
Andrew Pitts FACM FBCS is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Darwin College.
Content
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Theory: 1. Permutation; 2. Support; 3. Freshness; 4. Name abstraction; 5. Orbit finiteness; 6. Equivalents of Nom; Part II. Applications: 7. Inductive and conductive definitions; 8. Nominal algebraic data types; 9. Locally scoped names; 10. Functional programming; 11. Domain theory; 12. Computational logic; References; Notation index; Index.
