Samson Abramsky On Logic And Structure In Computer Science And Beyond

Author : Alessandra Palmigiano
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031241177
Total Pages : 1149 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science and Beyond written by Alessandra Palmigiano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-02 with total page 1149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samson Abramsky’s wide-ranging contributions to logical and structural aspects of Computer Science have had a major influence on the field. This book is a rich collection of papers, inspired by and extending Abramsky’s work. It contains both survey material and new results, organised around six major themes: domains and duality, game semantics, contextuality and quantum computation, comonads and descriptive complexity, categorical and logical semantics, and probabilistic computation. These relate to different stages and aspects of Abramsky’s work, reflecting its exceptionally broad scope and his ability to illuminate and unify diverse topics. Chapters in the volume include a review of his entire body of work, spanning from philosophical aspects to logic, programming language theory, quantum theory, economics and psychology, and relating it to a theory of unification of sciences using dual adjunctions. The section on game semantics shows how Abramsky’s work has led to a powerful new paradigm for the semantics of computation. The work on contextuality and categorical quantum mechanics has been highly influential, and provides the foundation for increasingly widely used methods in quantum computing. The work on comonads and descriptive complexity is building bridges between currently disjoint research areas in computer science, relating Structure to Power. The volume also includes a scientific autobiography, and an overview of the contributions. The outstanding set of contributors to this volume, including both senior and early career academics, serve as testament to Samson Abramsky’s enduring influence. It will provide an invaluable and unique resource for both students and established researchers.

Author : Mai Gehrke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009349716
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topological Duality for Distributive Lattices written by Mai Gehrke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Stone–Priestley duality theory and its applications to logic and theoretical computer science, this book equips graduate students and researchers with the theoretical background necessary for reading and understanding current research in the area. After giving a thorough introduction to the algebraic, topological, logical, and categorical aspects of the theory, the book covers two advanced applications in computer science, namely in domain theory and automata theory. These topics are at the forefront of active research seeking to unify semantic methods with more algorithmic topics in finite model theory. Frequent exercises punctuate the text, with hints and references provided.

Author : Shyam Wuppuluri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030921921
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Electrons to Elephants and Elections written by Shyam Wuppuluri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence. Much of today’s science is reductionist (bottom-up); in other words, behaviour on one level is explained by reducing it to components on a lower level. Chemistry is reduced to atoms, ecosystems are explained in terms of DNA and proteins, etc. This approach fails quickly since we can’t cannot extrapolate to the properties of atoms solely from Schrödinger's equation, nor figure out protein folding from an amino acid sequence or obtain the phenotype of an organism from its genotype. An alternative approach to this is holism (top-down). Consider an ecosystem or an organism as a whole: seek patterns on the same scale. Model a galaxy not as 400 billion-point masses (stars) but as an object in its own right with its own properties (spiral, elliptic). Or a hurricane as a structured form of moist air and water vapour. Reductionism is largely about content, whereas holistic models are more attuned to context. Reductionism (content) and holism (context) are not opposing philosophies — in fact, they work best in tandem. Join us on a journey to understand the multifaceted dialectic concerning this duo and how they shape the foundations of sciences and humanities, our thoughts and, the very nature of reality itself.

Author : S. Abramsky
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198537618
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Logic in Computer Science: Volume 2. Background: Computational Structures written by S. Abramsky and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-12-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Logic in Computer Science is a multi-volume work covering all major areas of application of logic to theoretical computer science.

Author : Robert Kowalski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540439609
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond written by Robert Kowalski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-12 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume spans the whole field of computational logic seen from the point of view of logic programming. The topics addressed range from issues concerning the development of programming languages in logic and the application of computational logic to real-life problems, to philosophical studies of the field at the other end of the spectrum. The articles presented cover the contributions of computational logic to databases and artificial intelligence with particular emphasis on automated reasoning, reasoning about actions and change, natural languages, and learning. Together with its companion volume, LNAI 2407, this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Bob Kowalski as one of the founders of and contributors to computational logic.

Author : Arkady Plotnitsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031129865
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quantum-Like Revolution written by Arkady Plotnitsky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last ten years, elements of the formalism of quantum mechanics have been successfully applied beyond physics in areas such as psychology (especially cognition), economics and finance (especially in the formalization of so-called ‘decision making’), political science, and molecular biology. An important stream of work along these lines, commonly under the heading of quantum-like modeling, has been published in well regarded scientific journals, and major publishers have devoted entire books to the topic. This Festschrift honors a key figure in this field of research: Andrei Khrennikov, who made momentous contributions to it and to quantum foundations themselves. While honoring these contributions, and in order to do so, this Festschrift orients its reader toward the future rather than focusing on the past: it addresses future challenges and establishes the way forward in both domains, quantum-like modeling and quantum foundations. A while ago, in response to the developments of using the quantum formalism outside of quantum mechanics, the eminent quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger said, ‘Why should it be precisely the quantum mechanics formalism? Maybe its generalization would be more adequate...’ This volume responds to this statement by both showing the reasons for the continuing importance of quantum formalism and yet also considering pathways to such generalizations. Khrennikov’s work has been indispensable in establishing the great promise of quantum and quantum-like thinking in shaping the future of scientific research across the disciplines.

Author : Bob Coecke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642381638
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations - The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky written by Bob Coecke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Samson Abramsky, contains contributions written by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. In celebration of the 60th birthday of Samson Abramsky, a conference was held in Oxford, UK, during May 28-30, 2010. The papers in this volume represent his manifold contributions to semantics, logic, games, and quantum mechanics.

Author : Samson Abramsky
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821849239
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow written by Samson Abramsky and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on the 2008 Clifford Lectures on Information Flow in Physics, Geometry and Logic and Computation, held March 12-15, 2008, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The varying perspectives of the researchers are evident in the topics represented in the volume, including mathematics, computer science, quantum physics and classical and quantum information. A number of the articles address fundamental questions in quantum information and related topics in quantum physics, using abstract categorical and domain-theoretic models for quantum physics to reason about such systems and to model spacetime. Readers can expect to gain added insight into the notion of information flow and how it can be understood in many settings. They also can learn about new approaches to modeling quantum mechanics that provide simpler and more accessible explanations of quantum phenomena, which don't require the arcane aspects of Hilbert spaces and the cumbersome notation of bras and kets.

Author : Bob Coecke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642381642
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations - The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky written by Bob Coecke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Samson Abramsky, contains contributions written by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. In celebration of the 60th birthday of Samson Abramsky, a conference was held in Oxford, UK, during May 28-30, 2010. The papers in this volume represent his manifold contributions to semantics, logic, games, and quantum mechanics.

Author : A.C. Kakas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540456287
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond written by A.C. Kakas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Robinson This set of essays pays tribute to Bob Kowalski on his 60th birthday, an anniversary which gives his friends and colleagues an excuse to celebrate his career as an original thinker, a charismatic communicator, and a forceful intellectual leader. The logic programming community hereby and herein conveys its respect and thanks to him for his pivotal role in creating and fostering the conceptual paradigm which is its raison d’Œtre. The diversity of interests covered here reflects the variety of Bob’s concerns. Read on. It is an intellectual feast. Before you begin, permit me to send him a brief personal, but public, message: Bob, how right you were, and how wrong I was. I should explain. When Bob arrived in Edinburgh in 1967 resolution was as yet fairly new, having taken several years to become at all widely known. Research groups to investigate various aspects of resolution sprang up at several institutions, the one organized by Bernard Meltzer at Edinburgh University being among the first. For the half-dozen years that Bob was a leading member of Bernard’s group, I was a frequent visitor to it, and I saw a lot of him. We had many discussions about logic, computation, and language.