Overview
- First book demonstrating how category theory can be used for formal software development
- The mathematical toolbox for the Software Engineering in the new age of complex interactive systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Why Another Book on Category Theory? In the past ten years, several books have been published on category t- ory either by computer scientists or having computer scientists as a target audience (e. g. [6, 12, 22, 89, 105], to which a precious collection of little gems [90] and the chapter cum book [91] should be added). Isn't the working computer scientist spoilt with choice? Although each of the above mentioned books presents an approach of its own, there is one aspect in common in their view of computer science: the analogy between arrows (morphisms) and (classes of) computations. This "type-theoretic" or "functional" approach corresponds to a view of c- puter science as a science of computation, i. e. a discipline concerned with the study of computational phenomena where the focus is on the nature and organisation of computations. However, there is another view of computer science where the focus is, instead, on the development of computer programs or systems. This is the approach that supports, for instance, software engineering. From this point of view, arrows do not capture computational phenomena, or abstractions thereof, but instead relationships between programs, or abstractions of programs, that arise in the development of computer systems, for instance, refinement of higher-level specifications into executable programs [100, 104], and superposition of new features over existing systems [72].
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Advanced Topics
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Applications
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor at the University of Leicester; Visiting Scientist at Imperial College, King’s College London, SRI International and the University of Pisa; Chairman of the IFIP WG1.3 – Foundations of System Specification; Chairman of the Steering Committee of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software; Winner of an IBM Award in 1996 for his work on Emergence in Complex Software Systems
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Categories for Software Engineering
Authors: José Luiz Fiadeiro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138249
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20909-6Published: 18 October 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05888-2Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26891-8Published: 09 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 250
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Mathematics of Computing