Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer by Hanne Riis Nielson

Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer by Hanne Riis Nielson

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.

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 Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

Flemming Nielson and Hanne Riis Nielson are full professors at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where they research formal methods for safe and secure systems in the Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. They have written successful textbooks, including the Springer titles Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer and Principles of Program Analysis, and they have lectured on these topics at Aalborg University, Aarhus University, the University of Kiel, Saarland University, and the Technical University of Denmark.

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ISBN 13	9781846286919
ISBN 10	1846286913
Title	Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer
Author	Hanne Riis Nielson
Series	Undergraduate Topics In Computer Science
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer London Ltd
Year published	2007-04-27
Number of pages	274
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