You might also like

Availability alert

More about Nondeterminism in Algebraic Specifications and Algebraic Programs

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 220 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Algebraic specification, nondeterminism and term rewriting are three active research areas aiming at concepts for the abstract description of software systems: Algebraic specifications are well-suited for describing data structures and sequential software systems in an abstract way. Term rewriting methods are used in many prototyping systems and form the basis for executing specifi cations. Nondeterminism plays a major role in formal language theory; in programming it serves for delaying design decisions in program development and occurs in a "natural" way in formalisations of distributed processes. Heinrich Hussmann presents an elegant extension of equational specification and term rewriting to include nondeterminism. Based on a clean modeltheoretic semantics he considers term rewriting systems without confluence restrictions as a specification language and shows that fundamental properties such as the existence of initial models or the soundness and completeness of narrowing, the basic mechanism for executing equational specifications, can be extended to nondeterministic computations. The work of Heinrich Hussmann is an excellent contribution to Algebraic Programming; it gives a framework that admits a direct approach to program verification, is suitable for describing concurrent and distributed processes, and it can be executed as fast as Prolog.

Book details

Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer science Mathematical theory of computation

• Full title: Nondeterminism in Algebraic Specifications and Algebraic Programs
• Author: ussmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9780817637002
• ID: 01399035
• Publisher: Springer, Basel
• Weight: 540 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 160 × 19 mm
• Published: 1993

Trending among others

---

---

---