Constructive Methods in Computing Science
Subtitle: International Summer School directed by F.L. Bauer, M. Broy, E.W. Dijkstra, C.A.R. Hoare
By: edited by Manfred Broy
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences -- 55; NATO ASI series -- 55.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9783642748844
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Constructive Methods in Computing Science held at Marktoberdorf, Federal Republic of Germany, July 24 - August 5, 1988
Description: Computing Science is a science of constructive methods. The solution of a problem has to be described formally by constructive techniques, if it is to be evaluated on a computer. The Marktoberdorf Advanced Study Institute 1988 presented a comprehensive survey of the recent research in constructive methods in Computing Science. Some approaches to a methodological framework and to supporting tools for specification, development and verification of software systems were discussed in detail. Other lectures dealt with the relevance of the foundations of logic for questions of program construction and with new programming paradigms and formalisms which have proven to be useful for a constructive approach to software development. The construction, specification, design and verification especially of distributed and communicating systems was discussed in a number of complementary lectures. Examples for those approaches were given on several levels such as semaphores, nondeterministic state transition systems with fairness assumptions, decomposition of specifications for concurrent systems in liveness and safety properties and functional specifications of distributed systems. Construction methods in programming that were presented range from type theory, the theory of evidence, theorem provers for proving properties of functional programs to category theory as an abstract and general concept for the description of programming paradigms.