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- From: pdm@daimi.aau.dk (Peter D. Mosses)
- Subject: Re: Semantic definition style
- In-Reply-To: moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch (Michel Moreaux)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.103034.25998@daimi.aau.dk>
- Summary: FTP-able bibliography for action semantics
- Keywords: action semantics, bibliography, ftp
- Sender: pdm@daimi.aau.dk (Peter D. Mosses)
- Reply-To: pdm@daimi.aau.dk (Peter D. Mosses)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <720801988.16035@minster.york.ac.uk> <DMASON.92Nov5131527@plg.uwaterloo.ca> <BEVAN.92Nov7140134@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk> <MOREAUX.92Nov9161246@litsun22.epfl.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:30:34 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- In article <MOREAUX.92Nov9161246@litsun22.epfl.ch>, moreaux@litsun22 (Michel Moreaux) writes:
- >Here is another reference:
-
- >@INPROCEEDINGS { M:345,
- > AUTHOR = "Mosses, Peter D.",
- > TITLE = "Unified Algebras and Action Semantics",
- >...
- > YEAR = "1989",
- > ...
- >_Michel Moreaux
-
- Thanks. That was, however, a somewhat tentative paper, exploring the
- use of unified algebras (an unorthodox order-sorted specification
- framework, allowing sort union and other operations on sorts) in
- action semantic descriptions. The `official' version of the action
- semantics framework, which David Watt and I describe in our respective
- books, doesn't rely quite so much on the novel features of unified
- algebras. (For those familiar with the referenced paper: the
- combinator for binary choice `A1 or A2' now returns an *individual*
- action, rather than the sort union `A1 | A2'. Thus the nondeterminism
- only appears during action performance, not in the actions per se.
- However, primitive actions can still be applied to sorts of data,
- e.g., `choose a number'.)
-
- Chapter 19 of my book provides an almost up-to-date bibliography of
- reports on action semantics. The current version of the bibliography
- can be retrieved by anonymous FTP from ftp.daimi.aau.dk in the
- directory pub/action/bibliography. The README file says:
-
- [This is ftp.daimi.aau.dk:pub/action/bibliography/README]
-
- The bibliography directory contains sources for the Action Semantics
- bibliography, as follows:
-
- The file abstract.bib contains all the abstracts from Chapter 19 of
- the AS book, together with the abstracts of some recent reports.
-
- The file action.bib contains the same as abstract.bib, except that the
- abstracts are omitted.
-
- The files new-abstract.bib and new-action.bib consist of just the
- recent entries in abstract.bib and action.bib.
-
- To print the file *.bib, use LaTeX, then BibTeX, then LaTeX again on
- the corresponding *.tex file. N.B. The ones with abstracts use my
- nonstandard bibliography style file alpha-abstract.bst, which allows
- longer strings than the standard styles. (The file old-abstract.bst
- could be used instead - it uses the citation keys as labels, like the
- widely available abstract.bst.)
-
- The *.dvi files are also available, for those who don't need the
- sources.
-
- Finally, the file all.tar.Z contains a compressed tar archive of all
- the files.
-
- ...
-
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