| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L55186/01 |
| Title: |
OPERATIONAL MODELS OF COMPUTATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Gardner, Professor P |
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| Department: |
Computer Science and Technology |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 1997 |
Ends: |
30 April 2000 |
Value (£): |
9,996
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| Fundamentals of Computing |
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Operational models of computation are important for rigorous language design, program development and specification analysis. This proposal studies models of functional and interactive computation, using Milner's action calculi which provides a framework for presenting such models. The proposed research will focus on the theoretical and practical development of action calculi, to achieve a fundamental understanding of the nature of interaction and to integrate techniques for reasoning about functional and interactive behaviour. The proposal consists of three parts: under the generic structure of action calculi, the aim is to develop a logical account of the underlying structure of action calculi and to investigate natural extensions; under semantic models, the aim is to find abstract models which capture the notion of observational behaviour, to provide a setting for comparing action calculi, and to understand the inherent categorical structure contained in the abstract models; and under specification tool and experimentation, the aim is to design and build a specification tool, based on the graphical presentation of action calculi, to help experiment with particular models of computation.
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