Types and models for higher-order action calculi

Philippa Gardner and Masahito Hasegawa

In Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS'97), Springer LNCS 1281 (1997) 583-603

Abstract

Milner introduced action calculi as a framework for representing models of interactive behaviour. He also introduced the higher-order action calculi, which add higher-order features to the basic setting. We present type theories for action calculi and higher-order action calculi, and give the categorical models of the higher-order calculi. As applications, we give a semantic proof of the conservativity of higher-order action calculi over action calculi, and a precise connection with Moggi's computational lambda calculus and notions of computation.

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