Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) - Softcover

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Nielson, Hanne Riis

 
9781846286919: Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
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ISBN 10: 1846286913 ISBN 13: 9781846286919
Publisher: Springer London, 2010

Synopsis

Semantics will play an important role in the future development of software systems and domain-specific languages. This book provides a needed introductory presentation of the fundamental ideas behind these approaches, stresses their relationship by formulating and proving the relevant theorems, and illustrates the applications of semantics in computer science. Historically important application areas are presented together with some exciting potential applications. The text investigates the relationship between various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these by means of interesting applications. The book provides a rigorous introduction to the main approaches to formal semantics of programming languages.

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Semantics will have an important role to play in the future development of software systems and domain specific languages, and there is a real need for an introductory book that presents the fundamental ideas behind these approaches; stresses their relationship by formulating and proving the relevant theorems; and illustrates the applications of semantics in computer science.

Written out of a tradition that places special emphasis on operational semantics, denotational semantics and axiomatic semantics, this book investigates the relationship between the various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these via interesting applications. Historically important application areas are used together with some exciting potential applications including:

  • Validating prototype implementations of programming languages

  • Verifying program analyses that are part of more advanced implementations of programming languages

  • Verifying security analyses

  • Verifying useful program properties including information about execution time.

This is an introductory text that should serve as an appetizer to the whole area of semantics with applications.

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Publisher
Springer London
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1846286913
ISBN 13 
9781846286919
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288

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