Categories for Software Engineering (Hardcover)

Jose Luiz Fiadeiro

ISBN 10: 3540209093 / ISBN 13: 9783540209096

Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 2004

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Hardcover. This book provides a gentle, software engineering oriented introduction to category theory. Assuming only a minimum of mathematical preparation, this book explores the use of categorical constructions from the point of view of the methods and techniques that have been proposed for the engineering of complex software systems: object-oriented development, software architectures, logical and algebraic specification techniques, models of concurrency, inter alia. After two parts in which basic and more advanced categorical concepts and techniques are introduced, the book illustrates their application to the semantics of CommUnity - a language for the architectural design of interactive systems. Demonstrates how category theory can be used for formal software development. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Categories for Software Engineering (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540209093
• ISBN 13: 9783540209096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Why Another Book on Category Theory? In the past ten years, several books have been published on category t- ory either by computer scientists or having computer scientists as a target audience (e. g. [6, 12, 22, 89, 105], to which a precious collection of little gems [90] and the chapter cum book [91] should be added). Isn't the working computer scientist spoilt with choice? Although each of the above mentioned books presents an approach of its own, there is one aspect in common in their view of computer science: the analogy between arrows (morphisms) and (classes of) computations. This "type-theoretic" or "functional" approach corresponds to a view of c- puter science as a science of computation, i. e. a discipline concerned with the study of computational phenomena where the focus is on the nature and organisation of computations. However, there is another view of computer science where the focus is, instead, on the development of computer programs or systems. This is the approach that supports, for instance, software engineering. From this point of view, arrows do not capture computational phenomena, or abstractions thereof, but instead relationships between programs, or abstractions of programs, that arise in the development of computer systems, for instance, refinement of higher-level specifications into executable programs [100, 104], and superposition of new features over existing systems [72].

About the Author

 Professor at the University of Leicester; Visiting Scientist at Imperial College, King’s College London, SRI International and the University of Pisa; Chairman of the IFIP WG1.3 – Foundations of System Specification; Chairman of the Steering Committee of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software; Winner of an IBM Award in 1996 for his work on Emergence in Complex Software Systems