Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics [electronic resource] : International Conference Manhattan, Kansas, April 11–12, 1985 Proceedings / edited by Austin Melton.

Standard, storeless semantics for ALGOL-style block structure and call-by-name -- Cartesian closed categories, quasitopoi and topological universes -- Concrete categories and injectivity -- Fixed points in process algebras with internal actions -- A fully abstract semantics and a proof system for an algol-like language with sharing -- Comparing categories of domains -- Galois connections -- Retracts of SFP objects -- Continuous categories -- Free constructions of powerdomains -- Additive domains -- A topological framework for cpos lacking bottom elements -- Detecting local finite breadth in continuous lattices and semilattices -- On the variety concept for ?-continuous algebras. Application of a general approach -- On denotational semantics of data bases -- Postconditional semantics of data base queries -- What is a model? A consumer's perspective on semantic theory -- Modal theory, partial orders, and digital geometry -- An FP domain with infinite objects -- Union complete countable subset systems -- On the syntax and semantics of concurrent computing.