Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International Conference, MPC 2008 Marseille, France, July 15-18, 2008 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540705932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 423 str.

Philippe Audebaud;Christine Paulin-Mohring

Opis

ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsofMPC2008, the9thInternationalConf- enceontheMathematicsofProgramConstruction.Thisseriesofconferencesaims to promote the development of mathematical principles and techniques that are demonstrably useful in the process of constructing computer programs, whether implemented in hardware or software. The focus is on techniques that combine precision with conciseness, enabling programs to be constructed by formal c- culation.Within this theme, the scopeofthe seriesisverydiverse, including p- grammingmethodology, programspeci?cationandtransformation, programming paradigms, programmingcalculi, andprogramminglanguagesemantics. The quality of the papers submitted to the conference was in general very high, and the number of submissions was comparable to that for the previous conference. Each paper was refereed by at least four, and often more, committee members. This volume contains 18 papers selected for presentation by the Program Committee from 41 submissions, 1 invited paper which was reviewed as well, and the abstracts for two invited talks. The conference took place in Marseille-Luminy, France. The previous eight conferences were held in 1989 in Twente, The Netherlands; in 1992 in Oxford, UK; in 1995 in Kloster Irsee, Germany; in 1998 in Marstrand near Got ] eborg, Sweden; in 2000 in Ponte de Lima, Portugal; in 2002 in Dagstuhl, Germany; in 2004, in Stirling, UK; and in 2006 in Kuressaare, Estonia. The proceedings of these conferences were published as LNCS 375, 669, 947, 1422, 1837, 2386, 3125 and 4014, respectively. We aregratefulto the members ofthe ProgramCommittee andtheir referees for their care and diligence in reviewing the submitted papers.

Spis treści

Exploiting Unique Fixed Points.- Scrap Your Type Applications.- Programming with Effects in Coq.- Verifying a Semantic ??-Conversion Test for Martin-Löf Type Theory.- The Capacity-C Torch Problem.- Recounting the Rationals: Twice!.- Zippy Tabulations of Recursive Functions.- Unfolding Abstract Datatypes.- Circulations, Fuzzy Relations and Semirings.- Asynchronous Exceptions as an Effect.- The Böhm–Jacopini Theorem Is False, Propositionally.- The Expression Lemma.- Nested Datatypes with Generalized Mendler Iteration: Map Fusion and the Example of the Representation of Untyped Lambda Calculus with Explicit Flattening.- Probabilistic Choice in Refinement Algebra.- Algebra of Programming Using Dependent Types.- Safe Modification of Pointer Programs in Refinement Calculus.- A Hoare Logic for Call-by-Value Functional Programs.- Synthesis of Optimal Control Policies for Some Infinite-State Transition Systems.- Modal Semirings Revisited.- Asymptotic Improvement of Computations over Free Monads.- Symmetric and Synchronous Communication in Peer-to-Peer Networks.

Blurb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2008, held in Marseille, France in July 2008.

The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. Issues addressed range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. Topics of special interest are type systems, program analysis and transformation, programming language semantics, program logics.