Hanne Riis Nielson, Flemming Nielson

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Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This book examines the important role semantics will have in the future development of software systems and domain specific languages. It 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. Coverage investigates the relationship between the various methods and describes some of the main ideas used. It illustrates these via historically important application areas 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, and verifying useful program properties including information about execution time.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 3.5MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Hanne Riis Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark / Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846286926
• Artikelnr.: 44222473

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This book title, with its explicit reference to applications, quickly grabbed my attention due to the theoretical nature of formal semantics. ... In any case, this book certainly fits the bill for an undergraduate course on the topic. ... It also includes plenty of solved examples and exercises for students to help them grasp the key ideas and techniques behind the different mathematical models that can be used to describe the computations performed by a computer program." (Fernando Berzal, Computing Reviews, January, 2008)

"This book presents a rigorous introduction to the main three approaches: operational semantics, denotational semantics, and axiomatic semantics. This book investigates the relationship between the various methods, and describes some of the main ideas by using applications. ... Several exercises are provided. ... help the student to understand definitions, results, and techniques ... ." (G. Ciobanu, ACM ComputingReviews, May, 2009)