TAPSOFT '91 - Volume 2

TAPSOFT '91 - Volume 2
Author: S. Abramsky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1991-03-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540539810

TAPSOFT '91 is the Fourth International Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software Development. It was held in Brighton, April 8-12, 1991, and was organized by the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London. The proceedings of TAPSOFT '91 are organized into three parts: - Advances in Distributed Computing (ADC) - Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming (CAAP) - Colloquium on Combining Paradigms for Software Development (CCPSD) The proceedings are published in two volumes. The first volume (LNCS, Vol. 493) contains the papers from CAAP. The second volume (LNCS, Vol. 494) contains the papers from the ADC and CCPSD. The ADC talks by distinguished invited speakers surveys current developments in distributed computing, including the integration of different paradigms for concurrency, algebraic, logical and operational foundations, and applications to software engineering and formal methods. The CCPSD papers address aspects of the trend in software enginering towards unification and synthesis combining theory and practice, and merging hitherto diverse approaches.

TAPSOFT'97: Theory and Practice of Software Development

TAPSOFT'97: Theory and Practice of Software Development
Author: Michel Bidoit
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 908
Release: 1997-04-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540627814

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference CAAP/FASE on Theory and Practice of Software Development (TAPSOFT'97), held in Lille, France, in April 1997. The volume is organized in three parts: The first presents invited contributions, the second is devoted to trees in algebra in programming (CAAP) and the third to formal approaches in software engineering (FASE). The 30 revised full papers presented in the CAAP section were selected from 77 submissions; the 23 revised full papers presented in the FASE section were selected from 79 submissions.

Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming

Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming
Author: Jan Małuszyński
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1991-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540544449

This volume contains the papers which have been accepted for presentation atthe Third International Symposium on Programming Language Implementation andLogic Programming (PLILP '91) held in Passau, Germany, August 26-28, 1991. The aim of the symposium was to explore new declarative concepts, methods and techniques relevant for the implementation of all kinds of programming languages, whether algorithmic or declarative ones. The intention was to gather researchers from the fields of algorithmic programming languages as well as logic, functional and object-oriented programming. This volume contains the two invited talks given at the symposium by H. Ait-Kaci and D.B. MacQueen, 32 selected papers, and abstracts of several system demonstrations. The proceedings of PLILP '88 and PLILP '90 are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volumes 348 and 456.

Fundamentals of Computation Theory

Fundamentals of Computation Theory
Author: Lothar Budach
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1991-08-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540544586

This volume contains papers which were contributed for presentation at the international conference "Fundamentals of Computation Theory - FCT '91" heldat Gosen, near Berlin, September 9-13, 1991. This was the eighth in the series of FCT conferences organized every odd year. The programme of theconference, including invited lectures and selected contributions, falls into the following categories: - Semantics and logical concepts in the theory of computing, formal specification, - Automata and formal languages, Computational geometry, - Algorithmic aspects of algebra and algebraic geometry, cryptography, - Complexity (sequential, parallel, distributed computing, structure, lower bounds, complexity of analytical problems, general concepts), - Algorithms (efficient, probabilistic, parallel, sequential, distributed), - Counting and combinatorics in connection with mathematical computer science. The proceedings of previous FCT meetings are available as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vols. 380, 278, 199, 158, 117, 56).

Parallel Execution of Logic Programs

Parallel Execution of Logic Programs
Author: Anthony Beaumont
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1991-12-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540550389

Logic programming refers to execution of programs written in Horn logic. Among the advantages of this style of programming are its simple declarativeand procedural semantics, high expressive power and inherent nondeterminism. The papers included in this volume were presented at the Workshop on Parallel Logic Programming held in Paris on June 24, 1991, as part of the 8th International Conference on Logic Programming. The papers represent the state of the art in parallel logic programming, and report the current research in this area, including many new results. The three essential issues in parallel execution of logic programs which the papers address are: - Which form(s) of parallelism (or-parallelism, and-parallelism, stream parallelism, data-parallelism, etc.) will be exploited? - Will parallelism be explicitly programmed by programmers, or will it be exploited implicitly without their help? - Which target parallel architecture will the logic program(s) run on?

Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science

Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
Author: Gunther Schmidt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1992-01-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540551218

This volume contains contributions to the 17th International workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG '91) held in Southern Bavaria in June 1991. These annual workshops are designed to bring together researchers using graph-theoretic methods to discuss new developments relating to or emerging from a diversity of application fields. The topics covered in this volume include: tree-related problems, graph grammarsand rewriting, complexity, computational geometry, parallel algorithms, vertex orderings, path-oriented algorithms, applications to VLSI, and disjoint cycle problems.

Algebraic Coding

Algebraic Coding
Author: Gerard Cohen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1992-02-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540551300

This volume presents the proceedings of the first French-Soviet workshop on algebraic coding, held in Paris in July 1991. The idea for the workshop, born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1990, was to bring together some of the best Soviet coding theorists. Scientists from France, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the United States also attended. The papers in the volume fall rather naturally into four categories: - Applications of exponential sums - Covering radius - Constructions -Decoding.

ESOP '92

ESOP '92
Author: Bernd Krieg-Brückner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1992-02-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540552536

This volume contains selected papers presented at the European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) held jointly with the seventeeth Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming (CAAP) in Rennes, France, February 26-28, 1992 (the proceedings of CAAP appear in LNCS 581). The previous symposiawere held in France, Germany, and Denmark. Every even year, as in 1992, CAAPis held jointly with ESOP. ESOP addresses fundamental issues and important developments in the specification and implementation of programming languages and systems. It continues lines begun in France and Germany under the names "Colloque sur la Programmation" and the GI workshop on "Programmiersprachen und Programmentwicklung". The programme committee received 71 submissions, from which 28 have been selected for inclusion in this volume.

Algebraic Specification Techniques in Object Oriented Programming Environments

Algebraic Specification Techniques in Object Oriented Programming Environments
Author: Ruth Breu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1991-12-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540549727

The main aim of this monograph is to provide a framework for the integrated design of object-oriented programs with algebraic specification techniques. The design method pursued relies fundamentally on the structuring of systems based on the notion of data types. Depending on the level of abstraction, data types are described in an object-oriented way by algebraic specifications or by machine-executable object-oriented programs. The treatment involves two main aspects. First, object-oriented programs have to be related by a notion of correctness that models the transition from specifications to program implementations. The author presents a notion of correctness which relies on the idea of abstraction functions. Second, in order to obtain an integrated design environment, a uniform structuring concept for object oriented programs and algebraic specifications has to be provided. Inheritance, subtyping and clientship are three central notions of object-oriented structuring. Theauthor uses them to develop the kernel of a typed object- oriented programming language. The monograph provides the formal foundation for a unified framework of algebraic specifications and object-oriented programs. A major guideline is the development of a design method supporting the structured design and reuse of software in this environment.

Word Equations and Related Topics

Word Equations and Related Topics
Author: Klaus U. Schulz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1992-01-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540551249

This volume contains papers presented at the first international workshop onword equations and related topics held at the University of T}bingen in October 1990. Word equations, the central topic of this annual workshop, lieat the intersection of several important areas of computer science, suchas unification theory, combinatorics on words, list processing, and constraint logic programming. The workshop is a forum where researchers fromthese different domains may present and discuss results and ideas, thereby supporting interaction and cross-fertilization between theoretical questions and practical applications. The volume collects papers which: - contain new and relevant results, - describe a new approach to a subject, or - give a survey of main developments in an area. Papers cover investigations on free groups, associative unification and Makanin's algorithm to decide the solvability of equations in free semigroups, general unification theory and its relationship to algebra and model theory, Thue systems, and finitely presented groups.