Category Theory and Computer Programming: Tutorial and Workshop, Guildford, U.K., September 16 - 20, 1985. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 240)

ISBN 10: 3540171622 / ISBN 13: 9783540171621

Published by Springer, 1986

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• Title: Category Theory and Computer Programming: Tutorial and Workshop, Guildford, U.K., September 16 - 20, 1985. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 240)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540171622
• ISBN 13: 9783540171621
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Categories.- Elements of categorical reasoning : Products and coproducts and some other (co-)limits.- Functors and natural transformations.- Adjunctions.- Cartesian closure - Higher types in categories.- Algebra categorically.- Category theory and logic.- Categories, data types, and imperative languages.- Category theory and programming language An overview.- Weakest Categorical insights.- A categorical view of weakest liberal preconditions.- Functor-category semantics of programming languages and logics.- Finite approximation of spaces.- Categories of partial morphisms and the ?P-calculus.- A note on distributive laws and power domains.- Category theory and models for parallel computation.- Categorical models of process cooperation.- Galois connections and computer science applications.- A study in the foundations of programming Specifications, institutions, charters and parchments.- Bits and pieces of the theory of institutions.- Extended An institution-independent framework for formal program development.- Behavioural program specification.- Key extensions of abstract data types, final algebras, and database semantics.- Theories as categories.- Internal completeness of categories of domains.- Formalising the network and hierarchical data models - an application of categorical Logic.- A categorical unification algorithm.- Computing with categories.