The Calculus Of Computation

Author : Aaron R. Bradley,Zohar Manna
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540741138

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The Calculus of Computation by Aaron R. Bradley,Zohar Manna Pdf

Written with graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mind, this textbook introduces computational logic from the foundations of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision procedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combination theories. The textbook also presents a logical approach to engineering correct software. Verification exercises are given to develop the reader's facility in specifying and verifying software using logic. The treatment of verification concludes with an introduction to the static analysis of software, an important component of modern verification systems. The final chapter outlines courses of further study.

Author : Aaron R. Bradley,Zohar Manna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540741127

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The Calculus of Computation by Aaron R. Bradley,Zohar Manna Pdf

Written with graduate and advanced undergraduate students in mind, this textbook introduces computational logic from the foundations of first-order logic to state-of-the-art decision procedures for arithmetic, data structures, and combination theories. The textbook also presents a logical approach to engineering correct software. Verification exercises are given to develop the reader's facility in specifying and verifying software using logic. The treatment of verification concludes with an introduction to the static analysis of software, an important component of modern verification systems. The final chapter outlines courses of further study.

Author : Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8184893965

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The Calculus Of Computation: Decision Procedures With Applications To Verification by Bradley Pdf

Author : Tom Stuart
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449330101

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Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart Pdf

Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming. Rather than use mathematical notation or an unfamiliar academic programming language like Haskell or Lisp, this book uses Ruby in a reductionist manner to present formal semantics, automata theory, and functional programming with the lambda calculus. It’s ideal for programmers versed in modern languages, with little or no formal training in computer science. Understand fundamental computing concepts, such as Turing completeness in languages Discover how programs use dynamic semantics to communicate ideas to machines Explore what a computer can do when reduced to its bare essentials Learn how universal Turing machines led to today’s general-purpose computers Perform complex calculations, using simple languages and cellular automata Determine which programming language features are essential for computation Examine how halting and self-referencing make some computing problems unsolvable Analyze programs by using abstract interpretation and type systems

Author : Zohar Manna
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0486432386

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Mathematical Theory of Computation by Zohar Manna Pdf

With the objective of making into a science the art of verifying computer programs (debugging), the author addresses both practical and theoretical aspects of the process. A classic of sequential program verification, this volume has been translated into almost a dozen other languages and is much in demand among graduate and advanced undergraduate computer science students. Subjects include computability (with discussions of finite automata and Turing machines); predicate calculus (basic notions, natural deduction, and the resolution method); verification of programs (both flowchart and algol-like programs); flowchart schemas (basic notions, decision problems, formalization in predicate calculus, and translation programs); and the fixpoint theory of programs (functions and functionals, recursive programs, and verification programs). The treamtent is self-contained, and each chapter concludes with bibliographic remarks, references, and problems.

Author : Simon Gay,Ian Mackie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521513746

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Semantic Techniques in Quantum Computation by Simon Gay,Ian Mackie Pdf

Explores quantum computation from the perspective of the branch of theoretical computer science known as semantics.

Author : Roberto Bruni,Ugo Montanari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319429007

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Models of Computation by Roberto Bruni,Ugo Montanari Pdf

This book presents in their basic form the most important models of computation, their basic programming paradigms, and their mathematical descriptions, both concrete and abstract. Each model is accompanied by relevant formal techniques for reasoning on it and for proving some properties. After preliminary chapters that introduce the notions of structure and meaning, semantic methods, inference rules, and logic programming, the authors arrange their chapters into parts on IMP, a simple imperative language; HOFL, a higher-order functional language; concurrent, nondeterministic and interactive models; and probabilistic/stochastic models. The authors have class-tested the book content over many years, and it will be valuable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of theoretical computer science and distributed systems, and for researchers in this domain. Each chapter of the book concludes with a list of exercises addressing the key techniques introduced, solutions to selected exercises are offered at the end of the book.

Author : Daniel M Rice
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780124104525

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Calculus of Thought by Daniel M Rice Pdf

Calculus of Thought: Neuromorphic Logistic Regression in Cognitive Machines is a must-read for all scientists about a very simple computation method designed to simulate big-data neural processing. This book is inspired by the Calculus Ratiocinator idea of Gottfried Leibniz, which is that machine computation should be developed to simulate human cognitive processes, thus avoiding problematic subjective bias in analytic solutions to practical and scientific problems. The reduced error logistic regression (RELR) method is proposed as such a "Calculus of Thought." This book reviews how RELR's completely automated processing may parallel important aspects of explicit and implicit learning in neural processes. It emphasizes the fact that RELR is really just a simple adjustment to already widely used logistic regression, along with RELR's new applications that go well beyond standard logistic regression in prediction and explanation. Readers will learn how RELR solves some of the most basic problems in today’s big and small data related to high dimensionality, multi-colinearity, and cognitive bias in capricious outcomes commonly involving human behavior. Provides a high-level introduction and detailed reviews of the neural, statistical and machine learning knowledge base as a foundation for a new era of smarter machines Argues that smarter machine learning to handle both explanation and prediction without cognitive bias must have a foundation in cognitive neuroscience and must embody similar explicit and implicit learning principles that occur in the brain

Author : Lynn Harold Loomis,Shlomo Sternberg
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789814583954

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Advanced Calculus by Lynn Harold Loomis,Shlomo Sternberg Pdf

An authorised reissue of the long out of print classic textbook, Advanced Calculus by the late Dr Lynn Loomis and Dr Shlomo Sternberg both of Harvard University has been a revered but hard to find textbook for the advanced calculus course for decades. This book is based on an honors course in advanced calculus that the authors gave in the 1960's. The foundational material, presented in the unstarred sections of Chapters 1 through 11, was normally covered, but different applications of this basic material were stressed from year to year, and the book therefore contains more material than was covered in any one year. It can accordingly be used (with omissions) as a text for a year's course in advanced calculus, or as a text for a three-semester introduction to analysis. The prerequisites are a good grounding in the calculus of one variable from a mathematically rigorous point of view, together with some acquaintance with linear algebra. The reader should be familiar with limit and continuity type arguments and have a certain amount of mathematical sophistication. As possible introductory texts, we mention Differential and Integral Calculus by R Courant, Calculus by T Apostol, Calculus by M Spivak, and Pure Mathematics by G Hardy. The reader should also have some experience with partial derivatives. In overall plan the book divides roughly into a first half which develops the calculus (principally the differential calculus) in the setting of normed vector spaces, and a second half which deals with the calculus of differentiable manifolds.

Author : David E. Betounes,Mylan Redfern Betounes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1465277269

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Calculus by David E. Betounes,Mylan Redfern Betounes Pdf

Author : Richard Zach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798536395509

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Sets, Logic, Computation by Richard Zach Pdf

A textbook on the semantics, proof theory, and metatheory of first-order logic. It covers naive set theory, first-order logic, sequent calculus and natural deduction, the completeness, compactness, and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems, Turing machines, and the undecidability of the halting problem and of first-order logic. It is based on the Open Logic project, and available for free download at slc.openlogicproject.org.

Author : Donald Sannella,Michael Fourman,Haoran Peng,Philip Wadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030769086

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Introduction to Computation by Donald Sannella,Michael Fourman,Haoran Peng,Philip Wadler Pdf

Computation, itself a form of calculation, incorporates steps that include arithmetical and non-arithmetical (logical) steps following a specific set of rules (an algorithm). This uniquely accessible textbook introduces students using a very distinctive approach, quite rapidly leading them into essential topics with sufficient depth, yet in a highly intuitive manner. From core elements like sets, types, Venn diagrams and logic, to patterns of reasoning, calculus, recursion and expression trees, the book spans the breadth of key concepts and methods that will enable students to readily progress with their studies in Computer Science.

Author : Zhe Hou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030878848

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Fundamentals of Logic and Computation by Zhe Hou Pdf

This textbook aims to help the reader develop an in-depth understanding of logical reasoning and gain knowledge of the theory of computation. The book combines theoretical teaching and practical exercises; the latter is realised in Isabelle/HOL, a modern theorem prover, and PAT, an industry-scale model checker. I also give entry-level tutorials on the two software to help the reader get started. By the end of the book, the reader should be proficient in both software. Content-wise, this book focuses on the syntax, semantics and proof theory of various logics; automata theory, formal languages, computability and complexity. The final chapter closes the gap with a discussion on the insight that links logic with computation. This book is written for a high-level undergraduate course or a Master's course. The hybrid skill set of practical theorem proving and model checking should be helpful for the future of readers should they pursue a research career or engineering in formal methods.

Author : Barry Jay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540891857

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Pattern Calculus by Barry Jay Pdf

Over time, basic research tends to lead to specialization – increasingly narrow t- ics are addressed by increasingly focussed communities, publishing in increasingly con ned workshops and conferences, discussing increasingly incremental contri- tions. Already the community of programming languages is split into various s- communities addressing different aspects and paradigms (functional, imperative, relational, and object-oriented). Only a few people manage to maintain a broader view, and even fewer step back in order to gain an understanding about the basic principles, their interrelation, and their impact in a larger context. The pattern calculus is the result of a profound re-examination of a 50-year - velopment. It attempts to provide a unifying approach, bridging the gaps between different programming styles and paradigms according to a new slogan – compu- tion is pattern matching. It is the contribution of this book to systematically and elegantly present and evaluate the power of pattern matching as the guiding paradigm of programming. Patterns are dynamically generated, discovered, passed, applied, and automatically adapted, based on pattern matching and rewriting technology, which allows one to elegantly relate things as disparate as functions and data structures. Of course, pattern matching is not new. It underlies term rewriting – it is, for example, inc- porated in, typically functional, programming languages, like Standard ML – but it has never been pursued as the basis of a unifying framework for programming.

Author : Vladimir Lifschitz
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780323148313

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Artificial and Mathematical Theory of Computation by Vladimir Lifschitz Pdf

Artificial and Mathematical Theory of Computation is a collection of papers that discusses the technical, historical, and philosophical problems related to artificial intelligence and the mathematical theory of computation. Papers cover the logical approach to artificial intelligence; knowledge representation and common sense reasoning; automated deduction; logic programming; nonmonotonic reasoning and circumscription. One paper suggests that the design of parallel programming languages will invariably become more sophisticated as human skill in programming and software developments improves to attain faster running programs. An example of metaprogramming to systems concerns the design and control of operations of factory devices, such as robots and numerically controlled machine tools. Metaprogramming involves two design aspects: that of the activity of a single device and that of the interaction with other devices. One paper cites the application of artificial intelligence pertaining to the project "proof checker for first-order logic" at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Another paper explains why the bisection algorithm widely used in computer science does not work. This book can prove valuable to engineers and researchers of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering, as well as, for computer programmers and designers of industrial processes.