Semantics with Applications

An Appetizer

By: Hanne Riis Nielson, Flemming Nielson

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Paperback | 27 April 2007

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Semantics will have an important role to play in the future development of software systems and domain specific languages, and there is a real need for an introductory book that 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.

This book investigates the relationship between the various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these via interesting applications. Historically important application areas are used 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. Verifying useful program properties including information about execution time.

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"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 Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Programming & Software Development Programming & Scripting Languages Computer Science Computer Architecture & Logic Design Compilers & Interpreters

Introduction	p. 1
Operational semantics	p. 19
More on operational semantics	p. 47
Provably correct implementation	p. 67
Denotational semantics	p. 91
More on denotational semantics	p. 127
Program analysis	p. 145
More on program analysis	p. 175
Axiomatic program verification	p. 205
More on axiomatic program verification	p. 229
Further reading	p. 247
Review of notation	p. 251
Implementation of program analysis	p. 255
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