Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software: International Conference TACS 91, Sen [Paperback]

TACS'91 is the first International Conference on TheoreticalAspects of Computer Science held at Tohoku University,Japan, in September 1991. This volume contains 37 papers andan abstract for the talks presented at the conference.TACS'91 focused on theoretical foundations of programming,and theoretical aspects of the design, analysis andimplementation of programming languages and systems. Thefollowing range of topics is covered: logic, proof,specification and semantics of programs and languages;theories and models of concurrent, parallel and distributedcomputation; constructive logic, category theory, and typetheory in computer science; theory-based systems forspecifying, synthesizing, transforming, testing, andverifying software.A semantics for type checking.- Type inference in polymorphic type discipline.- Monotone recursive definition of predicates and its realizability interpretation.- Adding proof objects and inductive definition mechanisms to frege structures.- From term models to domains.- An abstract interpretation for ML equality kinds.- Full abstraction and the Context Lemma (preliminary report).- An efficiency preorder for processes.- On nets, algebras and modularity.- Towards a complete hierarchy of compositional dataflow models.- Type theory as a foundation for computer science.- What is in a step: On the semantics of statecharts.- Proving termination of general Prolog programs.- On abstraction and the expressive power of programming languages.- Role of logic programming in the FGCS project.- Authentication and delegation with smart-cards.- Data flow analysis as model checking.- On the adequacy of dependence-based representations for programs with heaps.- From programming-by-example to proving-by-example.- From LP to LP: Programming with constraints.- Polynomial recursion analysis in pascal like programs.- Complexity of proving program correctness.- Some normalization properties of martin-l?f's l{