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Seminar
Recent Developments in and around Coalgebraic Logics.
Speaker: Dirk Pattinson.
Institute: Department of Computing,
Imperial College London.
Time/Place: 3:10 pm, Friday, 25 Sep, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
All are welcome.
This is a joint seminar of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Abstract
Applications of modal logics are abundant in computer science, and a large number of structurally different modal logics have been successfully employed in a diverse spectrum of application contexts: knowledge representation, reasoning about distributed and multi-agent systems and the verification of distributed systems. Coalgebraic semantics provides a uniform and encompassing view on the large variety of specific logics used in particular domains. The coalgebraic approach is generic and compositional: tools and techniques simultaneously apply to a large class of application areas and can moreover be combined in a modular way.
In particular, this facilitates a pick-and-choose approach to domain specific formalisms, applicable across the entire scope of application areas, leading to generic and feature-rich software tools that are easier to design, to implement, and to maintain.
This talk gives an introduction to coalgebraic logics, highlights some of the recent achievements, and demonstrates a proof-of-concept implementation.
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