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Dirk Draheim

Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

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Markov Chain Semantics, Termination Behavior, and Denotational Semantics

Verlag:: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 03/2017
Einband:: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Sprache:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9783642551970
Artikelnummer:: 4943408
Umfang:: 228 Seiten
Sonstiges:: 5 SW-Abb., 5 Tabellen,
Nummer der Auflage:: 17001
Ausgabe:: 1st ed. 2017
Copyright-Jahr:: 2015
Gewicht:: 505 g
Maße:: 246 x 159 mm
Stärke:: 20 mm
Erscheinungstermin:: 10.3.2017
Hinweis: Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Beschreibung

In its first part, the book analyses symbolic computation involving probabilism from scratch. The book establishes rigorous Markov Chain semantics for the typed lambda calculus with recursion and probabilistic choices. It exploits statistical distributions as domains and defines appropriate denotational semantics for the introduced lambda calculus. It proofs important correspondence theorems between the established operational and denotational semantics. In the second part, we review the power of inductive logics as the foundation for expert reasoning systems.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Probabilistic Lambda-Calculus and its Semantics.- Introduction.- Syntax and Operational Semantics.- The Working Probabilistic Lambda Calculus.- Properties of the Markov Chain Semantics.- Denotational Semantics.- Semantical Correspondences.- Categorical Treatment.- Probabilism and Non-Determinism.- Part II: Natural Probabilistic Reasoning.- On Natural Two-Tier Semantics for Propositional Logics.- Natural Semantics of Propositions.- Finite Discrete Stochastics Reconsidered.- Lambda-Calculus Definitions.- Markov Chains.- Basic Logic Language and Semantics Definitions.- References.- Index.

Klappentext

This book takes a foundational approach to the semantics of probabilistic programming. It elaborates a rigorous Markov chain semantics for the probabilistic typed lambda calculus, which is the typed lambda calculus with recursion plus probabilistic choice.
The book starts with a recapitulation of the basic mathematical tools needed throughout the book, in particular Markov chains, graph theory and domain theory, and also explores the topic of inductive definitions. It then defines the syntax and establishes the Markov chain semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus and, furthermore, both a graph and a tree semantics. Based on that, it investigates the termination behavior of probabilistic programs. It introduces the notions of termination degree, bounded termination and path stoppability and investigates their mutual relationships. Lastly, it defines a denotational semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus, based on continuous functions over probability distributionsas domains.

The work mostly appeals to researchers in theoretical computer science focusing on probabilistic programming, randomized algorithms, or programming language theory.

Biografie

Dirk Draheim holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Berlin since 1994 and a PhD in Computer Science from the Freie Universität Berlin since 2002. Since 1999 he gives lectures on Software Engineering at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 2004 to 2006 he was a research associate in the project "Typed User Interfaces", which is granted by the German Research Foundation DFG. In summer 2006 he was lecturer in human-computer interaction at the University of Auckland. Since summer 2006 until autumn 2008 he was senior researcher at the SCCH (Software Competence Center Hagenberg) in the position of the Area Manager Database Technology. Furthermore, he was guest professor in software engineering at the University of Mannheim in winter 2006 and guest lecturer in applied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in summer 2007 and summer 2008. Since autumn 2008 he is head of the IT department of the University of Innsbruck. Dirk Draheim is interested in system modeling, semantic web, web applications, and databases. Together with Gerald Weber he is organizer and program committee chair of the International Conference "Trends of Enterprise Application Architecture . He is member of ACM.