Using Information Systems to Solve Recursive Domain Equations Effectively
Using Information Systems to Solve Recursive Domain Equations Effectively
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10.1007/3-540-13346-1_5
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1984-06
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G. Winskel;K. Larsen
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作者:
G. Winskel;K. Larsen
The mathematical theory of semantics of programming languages founded by Dana Scott and Christopher Strachey has been based on partial orders of information. Just as one thinks of computing an integer or a final state so can one think of computing an element in the more abstract partial orders of information. And just as one has computations from input states to output states one can have computations which from input in one partial order of information compute output in another.The most general partial orders in use are complete partial orders (abbreviated to cpos). A cpo has a least element I, called" bottom", which stands for null information, and satisfies a completeness axiom which we try to motivate. Imagine computing an element of information like a partial function. The information need not come in one indivisible lump but may instead be presented as an increasing chain of elements of information, with information accumulating as time goes on. In a cpo the accumulation of this information, even over infinite time, is represented by an element of the partial order too. Formally, a cpo must satisfy the condition that if x 0~ x I~...~ xn~.. is an increasing e-chain then it has a least upper bound (lub) UnE x in the partial order.