Faculty of Computer Science

Research Group Theoretical Computer Science


Oberseminar: Heterogene formale Methoden


Date: 2017, November 29
Author: Diaconescu, Razvan
Title: Many-Valued Truth in an Institutional Setting

Abstract:

Institution theory is a form of category-based abstract model theory that is a well established foundation for formal specification and that has also reformed logic in a profound way. Many-valued logic represents a non-classical but well studied extension of traditional logic that goes beyond binary “black and white” truth. In this talk we will explore the concept many-valued truth with the tool of institution theory, both from the consequence-theoretic and the semantic perspectives. We will see how many-valued logic can be treated abstractly and generically, with the benefit of a deeper understanding of many-valued truth and of a smooth export of traditional many-logic logic ideas to unconventional logical environments, many of them playing a significant role in computer science.

About the Author:

Dr. Razvan Diaconescu, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy &ldquot;Simion Stoilow&rdquot;, has received his PhD in Oxford in 1994. He has co-designed the CafeOBJ specification language and co-implemented EQLOG, an equational and constraint logic programming system with subtypes and generic modules. His main work now is on the theory of institutions, which formalises the notion of logical system and provides a relativistic view on the notion of logic encompassing most logics that are actually used in computer science. His book &ldquot;Institution Independent Model Theory&rdquot; generalises a good portion classical first-order model theory to an arbitrary logic, formalised as an institution.


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