Parameterised Higher-Order Algebraic Specifications (1997)

Author(s): Steggles LJ

    Abstract: Motivated by the need to address the issue of specification in the large and the problems of specifying a full function space we consider extending the theory of parameterised algebraic specifications to the higher--order case. We develop the notion of a higher--order abstract parameterised data type and a parameterised higher--order equational specification. Due to the nature of the higher--order initial model we cannot extend the results for the first--order free functor semantics to the higher--order case and thus we present a concrete construction of a functor which we take to be the semantics of a parameterised higher--order equational specification. We demonstrate the theory we develop by considering a detailed specification case study of a second--order abstract parameterised data type for convolution.

      • Date: 3 July 1997
      • Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
      • Pages: 29
      • Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
      • Publication type: Report
      • Bibliographic status: Published

      Keywords: algebraic specification, case studies, higher-order algebra

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      Dr Jason Steggles
      Senior Lecturer