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CS4026: Formal Models of Computation

This course introduces three different frameworks which provide precise, robust and generic definitions for the notion of computation:

  1. The functional model
  2. The logic model
  3. The imperative model
The definitions are interestingly different and shed light on different aspects of computation. Each model, comes with an abstract mathematical basis (the lambda calculus, predicate logic and the theory of computation/complexity respectively). Each model is also the basis for practical programming languages, and the course provides an introduction to Haskell and Prolog as example languages based on the first two models.

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Kees van Deemter