Author: Peter Padawitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642738249
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
At least four research fields detennine the theoretical background of specification and deduction in computer science: recursion theory, automated theorem proving, abstract data types and tenn rewriting systems. As these areas approach each other more and more, the strong distinctions between functional and relational views, deductive and denotational approaches as well as between specification and programming are relieved in favour of their integration. The book will not expose the lines of this development; conversely, it starts out from the nucleus of Hom clause logic and brings forth both known and unknown results, most of which affect more than one of the fields mentioned above. Chapter 1 touches on historical issues of specification and prototyping and delimits the topics handled in this book from others which are at the core of related work. Chapter 2 provides the fundamental notions and notations needed for the presentation and interpretation of many-sorted Horn clause theories with equality. Chapter 3 supplies a number of sample Hom clause specifications ranging from arithmetic through string manipulation to higher data structures and interpreters of programming languages. Some of these examples serve as a reference to illustrate definitions and results, others may throw a light on the strong link between specifications and programs, which are executed by applying deduction rules. Thus we have included examples of how to use program trans/ormation methods in specification design.
Computing in Horn Clause Theories
Author: Peter Padawitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642738249
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
At least four research fields detennine the theoretical background of specification and deduction in computer science: recursion theory, automated theorem proving, abstract data types and tenn rewriting systems. As these areas approach each other more and more, the strong distinctions between functional and relational views, deductive and denotational approaches as well as between specification and programming are relieved in favour of their integration. The book will not expose the lines of this development; conversely, it starts out from the nucleus of Hom clause logic and brings forth both known and unknown results, most of which affect more than one of the fields mentioned above. Chapter 1 touches on historical issues of specification and prototyping and delimits the topics handled in this book from others which are at the core of related work. Chapter 2 provides the fundamental notions and notations needed for the presentation and interpretation of many-sorted Horn clause theories with equality. Chapter 3 supplies a number of sample Hom clause specifications ranging from arithmetic through string manipulation to higher data structures and interpreters of programming languages. Some of these examples serve as a reference to illustrate definitions and results, others may throw a light on the strong link between specifications and programs, which are executed by applying deduction rules. Thus we have included examples of how to use program trans/ormation methods in specification design.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642738249
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
At least four research fields detennine the theoretical background of specification and deduction in computer science: recursion theory, automated theorem proving, abstract data types and tenn rewriting systems. As these areas approach each other more and more, the strong distinctions between functional and relational views, deductive and denotational approaches as well as between specification and programming are relieved in favour of their integration. The book will not expose the lines of this development; conversely, it starts out from the nucleus of Hom clause logic and brings forth both known and unknown results, most of which affect more than one of the fields mentioned above. Chapter 1 touches on historical issues of specification and prototyping and delimits the topics handled in this book from others which are at the core of related work. Chapter 2 provides the fundamental notions and notations needed for the presentation and interpretation of many-sorted Horn clause theories with equality. Chapter 3 supplies a number of sample Hom clause specifications ranging from arithmetic through string manipulation to higher data structures and interpreters of programming languages. Some of these examples serve as a reference to illustrate definitions and results, others may throw a light on the strong link between specifications and programs, which are executed by applying deduction rules. Thus we have included examples of how to use program trans/ormation methods in specification design.
Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems
Author: Alfonso Miola
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540525318
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The growing importance of the systems for symbolic computation has greatly influenced the decision of organizing DISCO '90 which is short for International Symposium on Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO '90 focuses mainly on the most innovative methodological and technological aspects of hardware and software system design and implementation for Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Automated Reasoning, Software Environments (Languages and User Interfaces), and Automatic Programming. In particular, it includes papers on the design and the development of significant running systems. The general objective of DISCO '90 is to present an up-to-date view of the field, while encouraging the scientific exchange among academic, industrial and user communities of the development of systems for symbolic computation.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540525318
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The growing importance of the systems for symbolic computation has greatly influenced the decision of organizing DISCO '90 which is short for International Symposium on Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO '90 focuses mainly on the most innovative methodological and technological aspects of hardware and software system design and implementation for Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Automated Reasoning, Software Environments (Languages and User Interfaces), and Automatic Programming. In particular, it includes papers on the design and the development of significant running systems. The general objective of DISCO '90 is to present an up-to-date view of the field, while encouraging the scientific exchange among academic, industrial and user communities of the development of systems for symbolic computation.
Fundamentals of Computation Theory
Author: Lothar Budach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540544586
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This volume contains papers which were contributed for presentation at the international conference "Fundamentals of Computation Theory - FCT '91" heldat Gosen, near Berlin, September 9-13, 1991. This was the eighth in the series of FCT conferences organized every odd year. The programme of theconference, including invited lectures and selected contributions, falls into the following categories: - Semantics and logical concepts in the theory of computing, formal specification, - Automata and formal languages, Computational geometry, - Algorithmic aspects of algebra and algebraic geometry, cryptography, - Complexity (sequential, parallel, distributed computing, structure, lower bounds, complexity of analytical problems, general concepts), - Algorithms (efficient, probabilistic, parallel, sequential, distributed), - Counting and combinatorics in connection with mathematical computer science. The proceedings of previous FCT meetings are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vols. 380, 278, 199, 158, 117, 56).
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540544586
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This volume contains papers which were contributed for presentation at the international conference "Fundamentals of Computation Theory - FCT '91" heldat Gosen, near Berlin, September 9-13, 1991. This was the eighth in the series of FCT conferences organized every odd year. The programme of theconference, including invited lectures and selected contributions, falls into the following categories: - Semantics and logical concepts in the theory of computing, formal specification, - Automata and formal languages, Computational geometry, - Algorithmic aspects of algebra and algebraic geometry, cryptography, - Complexity (sequential, parallel, distributed computing, structure, lower bounds, complexity of analytical problems, general concepts), - Algorithms (efficient, probabilistic, parallel, sequential, distributed), - Counting and combinatorics in connection with mathematical computer science. The proceedings of previous FCT meetings are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vols. 380, 278, 199, 158, 117, 56).
PRICAI '96: Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Author: Norman Foo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540615323
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI '96, held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia in August 1996. The 56 revised full papers included in the book were carefully selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 175 submissions. The topics covered are machine learning, interactive systems, knowledge representation, reasoning about change, neural nets and uncertainty, natural language, constraint satisfaction and optimization, qualitative reasoning, automated deduction, nonmonotonic reasoning, intelligent agents, planning, and pattern recognition.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540615323
Category : Artificial intelligence
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI '96, held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia in August 1996. The 56 revised full papers included in the book were carefully selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 175 submissions. The topics covered are machine learning, interactive systems, knowledge representation, reasoning about change, neural nets and uncertainty, natural language, constraint satisfaction and optimization, qualitative reasoning, automated deduction, nonmonotonic reasoning, intelligent agents, planning, and pattern recognition.
Static Analysis
Author: Giorgio Levi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540497277
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS'98, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 1998. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 48 submissions. Also included is an invited tutorial. The papers are organized in topical sections on data-flow analysis, logic programming, concurrency, abstract domains, partial evaluation, type inference, and optimization. The invited tutorial by David Schmidt and Bernhard Steffen is entitled "data-flow analysis as model checking of abstract interpretations".
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540497277
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS'98, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 1998. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 48 submissions. Also included is an invited tutorial. The papers are organized in topical sections on data-flow analysis, logic programming, concurrency, abstract domains, partial evaluation, type inference, and optimization. The invited tutorial by David Schmidt and Bernhard Steffen is entitled "data-flow analysis as model checking of abstract interpretations".
Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning
Author: José Júlio Alferes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540395873
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Here are the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, PPSWR 2006. The book presents 14 revised full papers together with 1 invited talk and 6 system demonstrations, addressing major aspects of semantic Web research, namely forms of reasoning with a strong interest in rule-based languages and methods. Coverage includes theoretical work on reasoning methods, concrete reasoning methods and query languages, and practical applications.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540395873
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Here are the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, PPSWR 2006. The book presents 14 revised full papers together with 1 invited talk and 6 system demonstrations, addressing major aspects of semantic Web research, namely forms of reasoning with a strong interest in rule-based languages and methods. Coverage includes theoretical work on reasoning methods, concrete reasoning methods and query languages, and practical applications.
Algorithms and Computation
Author: Kyung-Yong Chwa
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540493816
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'98, held in Taejon, Korea, in December 1998. The 47 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on computational geometry, complexity, graph drawing, online algorithms and scheduling, CAD/CAM and graphics, graph algorithms, randomized algorithms, combinatorial problems, computational biology, approximation algorithms, and parallel and distributed algorithms.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540493816
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'98, held in Taejon, Korea, in December 1998. The 47 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 102 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on computational geometry, complexity, graph drawing, online algorithms and scheduling, CAD/CAM and graphics, graph algorithms, randomized algorithms, combinatorial problems, computational biology, approximation algorithms, and parallel and distributed algorithms.
Kolmogorov Complexity and Computational Complexity
Author: Osamu Watanabe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364277735X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The mathematical theory of computation has given rise to two important ap proaches to the informal notion of "complexity": Kolmogorov complexity, usu ally a complexity measure for a single object such as a string, a sequence etc., measures the amount of information necessary to describe the object. Compu tational complexity, usually a complexity measure for a set of objects, measures the compuational resources necessary to recognize or produce elements of the set. The relation between these two complexity measures has been considered for more than two decades, and may interesting and deep observations have been obtained. In March 1990, the Symposium on Theory and Application of Minimal Length Encoding was held at Stanford University as a part of the AAAI 1990 Spring Symposium Series. Some sessions of the symposium were dedicated to Kolmogorov complexity and its relations to the computational complexity the ory, and excellent expository talks were given there. Feeling that, due to the importance of the material, some way should be found to share these talks with researchers in the computer science community, I asked the speakers of those sessions to write survey papers based on their talks in the symposium. In response, five speakers from the sessions contributed the papers which appear in this book.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364277735X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The mathematical theory of computation has given rise to two important ap proaches to the informal notion of "complexity": Kolmogorov complexity, usu ally a complexity measure for a single object such as a string, a sequence etc., measures the amount of information necessary to describe the object. Compu tational complexity, usually a complexity measure for a set of objects, measures the compuational resources necessary to recognize or produce elements of the set. The relation between these two complexity measures has been considered for more than two decades, and may interesting and deep observations have been obtained. In March 1990, the Symposium on Theory and Application of Minimal Length Encoding was held at Stanford University as a part of the AAAI 1990 Spring Symposium Series. Some sessions of the symposium were dedicated to Kolmogorov complexity and its relations to the computational complexity the ory, and excellent expository talks were given there. Feeling that, due to the importance of the material, some way should be found to share these talks with researchers in the computer science community, I asked the speakers of those sessions to write survey papers based on their talks in the symposium. In response, five speakers from the sessions contributed the papers which appear in this book.
Conditional Term Rewriting Systems
Author: Michael Rusinowitch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540563938
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This volume contains the papers preesented at the Third International Workshop on Conditional Term Rewriting Systems, held in Pont- -Mousson, France, July 8-10, 1992. Topics covered include conditional rewriting and its applications to programming languages, specification languages, automated deduction, constrained rewriting, typed rewriting, higher-order rewriting, and graph rewriting. The volume contains 40 papers, including four invited talks: Algebraic semantics of rewriting terms and types, by K. Meinke; Generic induction proofs, by P. Padawitz; Conditional term rewriting and first-order theorem proving, by D. Plaisted; and Decidability of finiteness properties (abstract), by L. Pacholski. The first CTRS workshop was held at the University of Paris in 1987 and the second at Concordia University, Montreal, in 1990. Their proceddings are published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volumes 308 and 516 respectively.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540563938
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
This volume contains the papers preesented at the Third International Workshop on Conditional Term Rewriting Systems, held in Pont- -Mousson, France, July 8-10, 1992. Topics covered include conditional rewriting and its applications to programming languages, specification languages, automated deduction, constrained rewriting, typed rewriting, higher-order rewriting, and graph rewriting. The volume contains 40 papers, including four invited talks: Algebraic semantics of rewriting terms and types, by K. Meinke; Generic induction proofs, by P. Padawitz; Conditional term rewriting and first-order theorem proving, by D. Plaisted; and Decidability of finiteness properties (abstract), by L. Pacholski. The first CTRS workshop was held at the University of Paris in 1987 and the second at Concordia University, Montreal, in 1990. Their proceddings are published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volumes 308 and 516 respectively.
Handbook of Logic in Computer Science: Volume 5. Algebraic and Logical Structures
Author: S. Abramsky
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191546275
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This handbook volume covers fundamental topics of semantics in logic and computation. The chapters (some monographic in length), were written following years of co-ordination and follow a thematic point of view. The volume brings the reader up to front line research, and is indispensable to any serious worker in the areas.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191546275
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This handbook volume covers fundamental topics of semantics in logic and computation. The chapters (some monographic in length), were written following years of co-ordination and follow a thematic point of view. The volume brings the reader up to front line research, and is indispensable to any serious worker in the areas.