Communication and Concurrency develops a general calculus of concurrent programming from first principles. The book provides an understanding of concurrency through a very small number of primitive ideas and illustrates how these ideas apply to hardware and software, to specification and implementation. The material is organised to form the basis of a practical course.

Communication and Concurrency (Prentice-hall International Series in Computer Science)

Computers & Technology

Milner, Robin

Software

PRENTICE/HALL

Communication and Concurrency develops a general calculus of concurrent programming from first principles. The book provides an understanding of concurrency through a very small number of primitive ideas and illustrates how these ideas apply to hardware and software, to specification and implementation. The material is organised to form the basis of a practical course.

Communication and Concurrency

The Definition of Standard Ml

This book presents the official, formal definition of the programming language ML including the rules for grammar and static and dynamic semantics.

Harper, Robert

Tofte, Mads

Programming Languages

Mit Pr

Commentary on Standard Ml

The full mathematical description of the functional programming language ML was given in Milner, Tofte, and Harper's Definition of Standard ML. This companion volume explains in depth the meaning, or semantic theory, of ML. Together, the two volumes provide a complete understanding of the most prominent of a new group of functional programming languages that includes Haskell and Scheme.  In making the Definition easier to understand, the authors not only explain what ML is, they explain why it is. They present some of the rigorous analysis that supports the Definition including a selection of theorems that express important properties of the language. The Commentary is also a working document that shows the way in which the specialized theory of ML can contribute to broader research on language design and semantics.  Contents: Preface. Executing a Simple Program. Dynamic Semantics for the Core. Dynamic Semantics for the Modules. Static Semantics for the Core. Type Declarations and Principality. Static Semantics for the Modules. Signature Matching. Elaboration of Functors. Admissible Semantic Objects and Proofs. Elaboration of Signature Expressions. Principal Signatures. Appendixes: Proof of Principality. Identifier Status. Solutions to Exercises. Mistakes and Ambiguities.

The Definition of Standard ML

MacQueen, David

The MIT Press

This book presents the official, formal definition of the programming language ML including the rules for grammar and static and dynamic semantics. ML is the most well-developed and prominent of a new group of functional programming languages. On the cutting edge of theoretical computer science, ML embodies the ideas of static typing and polymorphism and has also contributed a number of novel ideas to the design of programming languages. Contents: Syntax of the Core. Syntax of Modules. Static Semantics for the Core. Static Semantics for Modules. Dynamic Semantics for Modules. Programs. Appendixes: Derived Forms. Full Grammar. The Initial Static Basis. The Initial Dynamic Basis. The Development of ML.

The full mathematical description of the functional programming language ML was given in Milner, Tofte, and Harper's Definition of Standard ML. This companion volume explains in depth the meaning, or semantic theory, of ML.

Standard ML is a general-purpose programming language designed for large projects. This book provides a formal definition of Standard ML for the benefit of all concerned with the language, including users and implementers. Because computer programs are increasingly required to withstand rigorous analysis, it is all the more important that the language in which they are written be defined with full rigor. One purpose of a language definition is to establish a theory of meanings upon which the understanding of particular programs may rest. To properly define a programming language, it is necessary to use some form of notation other than a programming language. Given a concern for rigor, mathematical notation is an obvious choice. The authors have defined their semantic objects in mathematical notation that is completely independent of Standard ML. In defining a language one must also define the rules of evaluation precisely―that is, define what meaning results from evaluating any phrase of the language. The definition thus constitutes a formal specification for an implementation. The authors have developed enough of their theory to give sense to their rules of evaluation. The Definition of Standard ML is the essential point of reference for Standard ML. Since its publication in 1990, the implementation technology of the language has advanced enormously and the number of users has grown. The revised edition includes a number of new features, omits little-used features, and corrects mistakes of definition.

The Definition of Standard ML - Revised

MIT Press]

The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents

The world is increasingly populated with interactive agents distributed in space, real or abstract. These agents can be artificial, as in computing systems that manage and monitor traffic or health; or they can be natural, e.g. communicating humans, or biological cells. It is important to be able to model networks of agents in order to understand and optimize their behavior. Robin Milner describes in this book just such a model, by presenting a unified and rigorous structural theory, based on bigraphs, for systems of interacting agents. This theory is a bridge between the existing theories of concurrent processes and the aspirations for ubiquitous systems, whose enormous size challenges our understanding. The book is self-contained mathematically and is designed to be learned from: examples and exercises abound, solutions for the latter are provided.

Cambridge University Press

Communicating and Mobile Systems: The Pi-Calculus

Communication is a fundamental and integral part of computing, whether between different computers on a network, or between components within a single computer. In this book Robin Milner introduces a new way of modelling communication that reflects its position. He treats computers and their programs as themselves built from communicating parts, rather than adding communication as an extra level of activity. Everything is introduced by means of examples, such as mobile phones, job schedualers, vending machines, data structures, and the objects of object-oriented programming. But the aim of the book is to develop a theory, the pi-calculus, in which these things can be treated rigorously. The pi-calculus differs from other models of communicating behaviour mainly in its treatment of mobility. The movement of a piece of data inside a computer program is treated exactly the same as the transfer of a message--or indeed an entire computer program--across the internet. One can also describe networks which reconfigure themselves. The calculus is very simple but powerful; its most prominent ingredient is the notion of a name. Its theory has two important ingredients: the concept of behavioural (or observational) equivalence, and the use of a new theory of types to classify patterns of interactive behaviour. The internet, and its communication protocols, fall within the scope of the theory just as much as computer programs, data structures, algorithms and programming languages. This book is the first textbook on the subject; it has been long-awaited by professionals and will be welcome by them, and their students.

Communicating and Mobile Systems: The Pi Calculus

Computer Science

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Communication and Concurrency (Prentice-hall International Series in Computer Science)

Communication and Concurrency

The Definition of Standard Ml

Commentary on Standard Ml

The Definition of Standard ML

The Definition of Standard Ml

Commentary on Standard Ml

The Definition of Standard ML - Revised

The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents

Communicating and Mobile Systems: The Pi Calculus