Mathematics of Program Construction [electronic resource] : 7th International Conference, MPC 2004, Stirling, Scotland, UK, July 12-14, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Dexter Kozen.

Invited Talk -- Extended Static Checking for Java -- Contributed Papers -- Constructing Polymorphic Programs with Quotient Types -- Optimizing Generic Functions -- Inferring Type Isomorphisms Generically -- Friends Need a Bit More: Maintaining Invariants Over Shared State -- Chasing Bottoms -- Describing Gen/Kill Static Analysis Techniques with Kleene Algebra -- A Free Construction of Kleene Algebras with Tests -- Streaming Representation-Changers -- Probabilistic Predicative Programming -- An Algebra of Scans -- Compiling Exceptions Correctly -- Modelling Nondeterminism -- Lazy Kleene Algebra -- Augmenting Types with Unbounded Demonic and Angelic Nondeterminacy -- An Injective Language for Reversible Computation -- Prototyping Generic Programming in Template Haskell -- Transposing Relations: From Maybe Functions to Hash Tables -- Pointer Theory and Weakest Preconditions without Addresses and Heap -- Travelling Processes.