TY - BOOK ID - 36755893 TI - Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer AU - Riis Nielson, Hanne. AU - Nielson, Flemming. PY - 2007 SN - 1846286913 1846286921 9781846286919 PB - London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) KW - Semantics KW - Semantics. KW - Data processing. KW - Computer science. KW - Logic design. KW - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. KW - Logics and Meanings of Programs. KW - Design, Logic KW - Design of logic systems KW - Digital electronics KW - Electronic circuit design KW - Logic circuits KW - Machine theory KW - Switching theory KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers). KW - Computer logic. KW - Computer science logic KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Computer languages KW - Computer program languages KW - Computer programming languages KW - Machine language KW - Electronic data processing KW - Languages, Artificial KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) - Semantics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36755893 AB - Semantics will have an important role to play in the future development of software systems and domain specific languages, and there is a real need for an introductory book that presents the fundamental ideas behind these approaches; stresses their relationship by formulating and proving the relevant theorems; and illustrates the applications of semantics in computer science. Written out of a tradition that places special emphasis on operational semantics, denotational semantics and axiomatic semantics, this book investigates the relationship between the various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these via interesting applications. Historically important application areas are used together with some exciting potential applications including: Validating prototype implementations of programming languages Verifying program analyses that are part of more advanced implementations of programming languages Verifying security analyses Verifying useful program properties including information about execution time. This is an introductory text that should serve as an appetizer to the whole area of semantics with applications. ER -