Logic for Concurrency and Synchronisation

Logic for Concurrency and Synchronisation
Author: R.J. De Queiroz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0306480883

This book is for researchers in computer science, mathematical logic, and philosophical logic. It shows the state of the art in current investigations of process calculi with mainly two major paradigms at work: linear logic and modal logic. The combination of approaches and pointers for further integration also suggests a grander vision for the field.

Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning

Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning
Author: Christian G. Fermüller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 667
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364216241X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR-17, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in October 2010. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions.

Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency

Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency
Author: Narciso Martí-Oliet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2015-08-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319231650

This Festschrift volume contains 28 refereed papers including personal memories, essays, and regular research papers by close collaborators and friends of José Meseguer to honor him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. These papers were presented at a symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 23-25, 2015. The symposium also featured invited talks by Claude and Hélène Kirchner and by Patrick Lincoln. The foreword of this volume adds a brief overview of some of José's many scientific achievements followed by a bibliography of papers written by José.

Logic, Language, Information, and Computation

Logic, Language, Information, and Computation
Author: Ulrich Kohlenbach
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-08-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662441454

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2014, held in Valparaiso, Chile, in September 2014. The 15 contributed papers presented together with 6 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The focus of the workshop was on the following subjects Inter-Disciplinary Research involving Formal Logic, Computing and Programming Theory, and Natural Language and Reasoning.

A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory

A Guide to Classical and Modern Model Theory
Author: Annalisa Marcja
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003-06-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781402013317

This volume is easily accessible to young people and mathematicians unfamiliar with logic. It gives a terse historical picture of Model Theory and introduces the latest developments in the area. It further provides 'hands-on' proofs of elimination of quantifiers, elimination of imaginaries and other relevant matters. The book is for trainees and professional model theorists, and mathematicians working in Algebra and Geometry.

Anaphora and Type Logical Grammar

Anaphora and Type Logical Grammar
Author: Gerhard Jäger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2005-08-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781402039041

Type Logical Grammar is a framework that emerged from the synthesis of two traditions: Categorial Grammar from formal linguistics and substructural logics from logic. Grammatical composition is conceived as resource conscious logical deduction. Such a grammar is necessarily surface oriented and lexicalistic. The Curry-Howard correspondence supplies an elegant compositional mapping from syntax to semantics. Anaphora does not seem to fit well into this framework. In type logical deductions, each resource is used exactly once. Anaphora, however, is a phenomenon where semantic resources are used more than once. Generally admitting the multiple use of lexical resources is not possible because it would lead to empirical inadequacy and computational intractability. This book develops a hybrid architecture that allows to incorporate anaphora resolution into grammatical deduction while avoiding these consequences. To this end, the grammar logic is enriched with a connective that specifically deals with anaphora. After giving a self-contained introduction into Type Logical Grammar in general, the book discusses the formal properties of this connective. In the sequel, Jäger applies this machinery to numerous linguistic phenomena pertaining to the interaction of pronominal anaphora, VP ellipsis and quantification. In the final chapter, the framework is extended to indefiniteness, specificity and sluicing.

The Connectives

The Connectives
Author: Lloyd Humberstone
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 1511
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0262016540

In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone examines the semantics and pragmatics of natural language sentence connectives (and, or, if, not), giving special attention to their formal behavior according to proposed logical systems and the degree to which such treatments capture their intuitive meanings. It will be an essential resource for philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, or any scholar who finds connectives, and the conceptual issues surrounding them, to be a source of interest.

Behaviourism in Studying Swarms: Logical Models of Sensing and Motoring

Behaviourism in Studying Swarms: Logical Models of Sensing and Motoring
Author: Andrew Schumann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2018-05-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319915428

This book presents fundamental theoretical results for designing object-oriented programming languages for controlling swarms. It studies the logics of swarm behaviours. According to behaviourism, all behaviours can be controlled or even managed by stimuli in the environment: attractants (motivational reinforcement) and repellents (motivational punishment). At the same time, there are two main stages in reactions to stimuli: sensing (perceiving signals) and motoring (appropriate direct reactions to signals). This book examines the strict limits of behaviourism from the point of view of symbolic logic and algebraic mathematics: how far can animal behaviours be controlled by the topology of stimuli? On the one hand, we can try to design reversible logic gates in which the number of inputs is the same as the number of outputs. In this case, the behaviouristic stimuli are inputs in swarm computing and appropriate reactions at the motoring stage are its outputs. On the other hand, the problem is that even at the sensing stage each unicellular organism can be regarded as a logic gate in which the number of outputs (means of perceiving signals) greatly exceeds the number of inputs (signals).

Automata, Languages and Programming

Automata, Languages and Programming
Author: Luca Aceto
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540705821

ICALP 2008, the 35th edition of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, was held in Reykjavik, Iceland, July 7–11, 2008. ICALP is a series of annual conferences of the European Association for Th- reticalComputer Science(EATCS) which ?rsttook placein 1972.This year,the ICALP program consisted of the established Track A (focusing on algorithms, automata,complexityandgames)andTrackB(focusing onlogic,semanticsand theory of programming), and of the recently introduced Track C (focusing on security and cryptography foundations). In response to the call for papers, the Program Committees received 477 submissions, the highest ever: 269 for Track A, 122 for TrackB and 86 for Track C. Out of these, 126 papers were selected for inclusion in the scienti?c program: 70 papers for Track A, 32 for Track B and 24 for Track C. The selection was made by the Program Committees based on originality, quality, and relevance to theoretical computer science. The quality of the manuscripts was very high indeed, and many deserving papers could not be selected. ICALP 2008 consisted of ?ve invited lectures and the contributed papers.

Classical and New Paradigms of Computation and their Complexity Hierarchies

Classical and New Paradigms of Computation and their Complexity Hierarchies
Author: Benedikt Löwe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2007-11-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1402027761

The notion of complexity is an important contribution of logic to theoretical computer science and mathematics. This volume attempts to approach complexity in a holistic way, investigating mathematical properties of complexity hierarchies at the same time as discussing algorithms and computational properties. A main focus of the volume is on some of the new paradigms of computation, among them Quantum Computing and Infinitary Computation. The papers in the volume are tied together by an introductory article describing abstract properties of complexity hierarchies. This volume will be of great interest to both mathematical logicians and theoretical computer scientists, providing them with new insights into the various views of complexity and thus shedding new light on their own research.