Partial Evaluation: Practice and Theory
Partial Evaluation: Practice and Theory

Author: John Hatcliff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-16

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 3540470182

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As the complexity of software increases, researchers and practicioners continue to seek better techniques for engineering the construction of evolution of software. Partial evaluation is an attractive technology for modern software construction since it provides automatic tools for software specialization and is based on rigorous semantic foundations. This book is based on a school held at DIKU Copenhagen, Denmark in summer 1998 during which leading researchers summarized the state of the art in partial evaluation. The lectures presented survey the foundations of partial evaluation in a clear and rigorous manner and practically introduce several existing partial evaluators with numerous examples. The second part of the book is devoted to more sophisticated theoretical aspects, advances systems and applications, and highlights open problems and challenges. The book is ideally suited for advanced courses and for self study.

Partial Evaluation: Practice and Theory
Partial Evaluation: Practice and Theory

Author: John Hatcliff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-11-17

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9783540667100

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As the complexity of software increases, researchers and practicioners continue to seek better techniques for engineering the construction of evolution of software. Partial evaluation is an attractive technology for modern software construction since it provides automatic tools for software specialization and is based on rigorous semantic foundations. This book is based on a school held at DIKU Copenhagen, Denmark in summer 1998 during which leading researchers summarized the state of the art in partial evaluation. The lectures presented survey the foundations of partial evaluation in a clear and rigorous manner and practically introduce several existing partial evaluators with numerous examples. The second part of the book is devoted to more sophisticated theoretical aspects, advances systems and applications, and highlights open problems and challenges. The book is ideally suited for advanced courses and for self study.

Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation
Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation

Author: Neil D. Jones

Publisher: Peter Sestoft

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0130202495

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Partial evaluation reconciles generality with efficiency by providing automatic specialization and optimization of programs. This book covers the entire field of partial evaluation; provides simple and complete algorithms; and demonstrates that specialization can increase efficiency.

Program Evaluation Theory and Practice, First Edition
Program Evaluation Theory and Practice, First Edition

Author: Donna M. Mertens

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1462503268

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This engaging text takes an evenhanded approach to major theoretical paradigms in evaluation and builds a bridge from them to evaluation practice. Featuring helpful checklists, procedural steps, provocative questions that invite readers to explore their own theoretical assumptions, and practical exercises, the book provides concrete guidance for conducting large- and small-scale evaluations. Numerous sample studies—many with reflective commentary from the evaluators—reveal the process through which an evaluator incorporates a paradigm into an actual research project. The book shows how theory informs methodological choices (the specifics of planning, implementing, and using evaluations). It offers balanced coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Useful pedagogical features include: *Examples of large- and small-scale evaluations from multiple disciplines. *Beginning-of-chapter reflection questions that set the stage for the material covered. *"Extending your thinking" questions and practical activities that help readers apply particular theoretical paradigms in their own evaluation projects. *Relevant Web links, including pathways to more details about sampling, data collection, and analysis. *Boxes offering a closer look at key evaluation concepts and additional studies. *Checklists for readers to determine if they have followed recommended practice.

Foundations of Secure Computation
Foundations of Secure Computation

Author: Friedrich L. Bauer

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781586030155

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The final quarter of the 20th century has seen the establishment of a global computational infrastructure. This and the advent of programming languages such as Java, supporting mobile distributed computing, has posed a significant challenge to computer sciences. The infrastructure can support commerce, medicine and government, but only if communications and computing can be secured against catastrophic failure and malicious interference.

Applied Semantics
Applied Semantics

Author: Gilles Barthe

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-02

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 3540456996

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This book is based on material presented at the international summer school on Applied Semantics that took place in Caminha, Portugal, in September 2000. We aim to present some recent developments in programming language research, both in semantic theory and in implementation, in a series of graduate-level lectures. The school was sponsored by the ESPRIT Working Group 26142 on Applied Semantics(APPSEM),whichoperatedbetweenApril1998andMarch2002.The purpose of this working group was to bring together leading reseachers, both in semantic theory and in implementation, with the speci?c aim of improving the communication between theoreticians and practitioners. TheactivitiesofAPPSEMwerestructuredintonineinterdisciplinarythemes: A: Semantics for object-oriented programming B: Program structuring C: Integration of functional languages and proof assistants D: Veri?cation methods E: Automatic program transformation F: Games, sequentiality, and abstract machines G: Types and type inference in programming H: Semantics-based optimization I: Domain theory and real number computation These themes were identi?ed as promising for pro?table interaction between semantic theory and practice, and were chosen to contribute to the following general topics: – description of existing programming language features; – design of new programming language features; – implementation and analysis of programming languages; – transformation and generation of programs; – veri?cation of programs. The chapters in this volume give examples of recent developments covering a broad range of topics of interest to APPSEM.

Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Generative Programming and Component Engineering

Author: Don Batory

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-09-23

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3540442847

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering, GPCE 2002, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in October 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. Among the topics covered are generative programming, meta-programming, program specialization, program analysis, program transformation, domain-specific languages, software architectures, aspect-oriented programming, and component-based systems.

Functional and Logic Programming
Functional and Logic Programming

Author: Herbert Kuchen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-29

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3540447164

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming, FLOPS 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan in March 2001. The 21 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The book offers topical sections on functional programming, logic programming, functional logic programming, types, program analysis and transformation, and Lambda calculus.

Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications
Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications

Author: Samson Abramsky

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-29

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3540454136

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA 2001, held in Krakow, Poland in May 2001. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The volume reports research results on all current aspects of typed lambda calculi. Among the topics addressed are type systems, subtypes, coalgebraic methods, pi-calculus, recursive games, various types of lambda calculi, reductions, substitutions, normalization, linear logic, cut-elimination, prelogical relations, and mu calculus.