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IA011 Programming Language Semantics

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Alternate Types of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Antonín Kučera, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Antonín Kučera, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Computer Science - Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Tue 10:00–12:50 G101

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with basic notions of set theory and formal logic (validity and provability, correctness and completeness of deductive systems, etc.)

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 23 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

An introduction to the theory of formal semantics of programming languages (operational, denotational, and axiomatic semantics).
Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows: to understand basic types of formal semantics of programming languages; to be able to reason about properties of programs using formal semantics; to understand basic notions of temporal logics.

Syllabus

• Formal semantics of programming languages, basic paradigms (operational, denotational, and axiomatic approach).
• Structural operational semantics and its variants (small-step and big-step semantics).
• Denotational semantics. Complete partial orders, continuous functions. The fixed-point theorem and its applications, semantics of recursion. Equivalence of operational and denotational semantics.
• Axiomatic semantics. Hoare's deductive system, its correctness and completeness.
• Temporal logics; the semantics of non-terminating and parallel programs.

Literature

• WINSKEL, Glynn. The formal semantics of programming languages : an introduction. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. xi, 361 s. ISBN 0-262-23169-7. info
• SCHMIDT, David A. The structure of typed programming languages. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. viii, 367. ISBN 0-262-19349-3. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, tutorials.

Assessment methods

Lectures: 2 hours/week. Tutorials: 1 hour/week.
Written exam.

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/kucera/teaching.html

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.

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