We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...
ASL+ is a formalism for speci cation and programming in-the-large, based on an arbitrary institution. It has rules for proving the satisfaction and re nement of speci cations, whic...
We present a Language Prototyping System that facilitates the modular development of interpreters from semantic specifications. The theoretical basis of our system is the integrat...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the methodology of reasoning with prioritized defaults in the language of logic programs under the answer set semantics. We present a do...
I present MOSES (meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search), a new probabilistic modeling (estimation of distribution) approach to program evolution. Distributions are not esti...