Recent Trends in Data Type Specification

Seven years of COMPASS.- Inductively defined relations: A brief tutorial extended abstract.- On the role of category theory in the area of algebraic specifications.- Unification of theories: A challenge for computing science.- The larch shared language: Some open problems.- The lambda calculus as an abstract data type.- Unifying theories in different institutions.- Interchange format for inter-operability of tools and translation.- Experiments with partial evaluation domains for rewrite specifications.- Class-sort polymorphism in GLIDER.- Deontic concepts in the algebraic specification of dynamic systems: The permission case.- Reification — Changing viewpoint but preserving truth.- A category-based equational logic semantics to constraint programming.- Concurrent state transformations on abstract data types.- A view on implementing processes: Categories of circuits.- Combining algebraic and set-theoretic specifications.- Minimal term rewriting systems.- InterACT: An interactive theorem and completeness prover for algebraic specifications with conditional equations.- Rewriting and reasoning with set-relations II: The non-ground case completeness.- Termination of curryfied rewrite systems.- Formal specifications and test: Correctness and oracle.- Behavioural equivalence, bisimulation, and minimal realisation.- Using limits of parchments to systematically construct institutions of partial algebras.- Behavioural specifications in type theory.- Swinging data types.- Context institutions.- Object-oriented functional programming and type reconstruction.- Moving between logical systems.- Modular algebraic specifications and the orientation of equations into rewrite rules.- A model for I/O in equational languages with don't care non-determinism.- Tool design for structuring mechanisms for algebraic specification languages with initial semantics.