*--------------------------------------------------------------------* *              Swansea Algebraic Specification Seminar               * *                                                                    * *                      Jose Fiadeiro (Leicester)                     * *           Categorical structures for system modelling              * *                                                                    * *               July 5 & 6, 2005, Swansea, Wales, UK                 * *                                                                    * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* *           http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csmarkus/algspec.htm           * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* The focus of this series of lectures is the support that category theory can bring to the modelling of complex software systems.  It consists of an introduction to basic and more advanced categorical concepts and techniques using examples drawn from concurrency theory, algebraic specification (namely institutions) and software architecture (the language CommUnity).  Our ambition is to show how category theory can provide a unifying, truly 'universal' approach to the handling of different levels of complexity that arise in the development of large and interaction-intensive systems. The material will be delivered so as to address, as much as possible, the interests, doubts and curiosity of the audience. The pace will be largely dictated by the participants. The presentation will be supported by the book "Categories for Software Engineering", Springer 2004, meaning that topics that will not receive sufficient coverage can always be looked at in the book. Tentative schedule ------------------ 1: The "social" life objects: categories vs sets     "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,      but in our attitude towards them", Saint-Exupéry 2: Universal constructions     "Composition as conjunction" P.Zave & M.Jackson 3: The "social" life of categories: functors      Modelling in structured domains 4: Functor-structured categories: fibrations      The power of indexing 5: The "social" life of functors: adjunctions      The power of dualities Participation ------------- Attendance is free; please contact Markus Roggenbach (M.Roggenbach@swan.ac.uk) if you need accommodation. -- Dr. Markus Michelbrink Dept. of Computer Science University of Wales Swansea Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP United Kingdom 17-Jun-2005 17:22:04 -0300,3468;000000000000-00000015