Transitions and Trees An Introduction to Structural Operational Semantics
Transitions and Trees: An Introduction to Structural Operational Semantics by Hans Hüttel, published by Cambridge University Press on April 29, 2010, is a comprehensive guide that explores the mathematical theory of structural operational semantics. This edition spans 290 pages and is presented in English, offering a self-contained introduction to the behavior of programs in an implementation-independent manner. The book covers semantic definitions through both big-step and small-step semantics, addressing various programming language constructs such as control structures, procedural abstraction, and concurrency.
Readers will find a detailed examination of proof techniques, including induction and semantic equivalence, which are essential for understanding the subject. The text is designed to be accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as computing professionals, without requiring prior experience with specific programming languages. With its thorough approach, this book serves as an educational resource that balances clarity and rigor, making it suitable for those interested in programming languages, algorithms, and discrete mathematics.
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Structural operational semantics is a simple, yet powerful mathematical theory for describing the behaviour of programs in an implementation-independent manner. This book provides a self-contained introduction to structural operational semantics, featuring semantic definitions using big-step and small-step semantics of many standard programming language constructs, including control structures, structured declarations and objects, parameter mechanisms and procedural abstraction, concurrency, nondeterminism and the features of functional programming languages. Along the way, the text introduces and applies the relevant proof techniques, including forms of induction and notions of semantic equivalence (including bisimilarity). Thoroughly class-tested, this book has evolved from lecture notes used by the author over a 10-year period at Aalborg University to teach undergraduate and graduate students. The result is a thorough introduction that makes the subject clear to students and computing professionals without sacrificing its rigour. No experience with any specific programming language is required.
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