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We propose Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP), a framework for semantically parsing documents in specific domains. Basically, OONP reads a document and parses it into a predesigned object-oriented data structure (referred to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zhengdong Lu , Xianggen Liu , Haotian Cui , Yukun Yan , Daqi Zheng

In this paper we present a possible way how a precise semantics of object oriented modeling techniques can be achieved and what the possible benefits are .We outline the main modeling techniques used in the SysLab project sketch how a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Ruth Breu , Radu Grosu , Franz Huber , Bernhard Rumpe , Wolfgang Schwerin

Formal semantics offers a complete and rigorous definition of a language. It is important to define different semantic models for a language and different models serve different purposes. Building equivalence between different semantic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-18 Shamim H. Ripon , Michael Butler

The main goal of concept-oriented programming (COP) is describing how objects are represented and accessed. It makes references (object locations) first-class elements of the program responsible for many important functions which are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Alexandr Savinov

SCOOP is a programming model and language that allows concurrent programming at a high level of abstraction. Several approaches to verifying SCOOP programs have been proposed in the past, but none of them operate directly on the source code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Claudio Corrodi

The multiplicity of software projects' stakeholders and activities leads to the multiplicity of software specification views and thus creates the need to establish mutual consistency between them. The process of establishing such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Alexandr Naumchev

Context Oriented Programming (COP) concerns the ability of programs to adapt to changes in their running environment. A number of programming languages endowed with COP constructs and features have been developed. However, some foundational…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Pierpaolo Degano , Gian-Luigi Ferrari , Letterio Galletta , Gianluca Mezzetti

We have proposed going beyond traditional ontologies to use rich semantics implemented in programming languages for modeling. In this paper, we discuss the application of executable semantic models to two examples, first a structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Robert B. Allen

Automatic differentiation plays a prominent role in scientific computing and in modern machine learning, often in the context of powerful programming systems. The relation of the various embodiments of automatic differentiation to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Martin Abadi , Gordon D. Plotkin

OpenMP is the de facto standard to exploit the on-node parallelism in new generation supercomputers.Despite its overall ease of use, even expert users are known to create OpenMP programs that harbor concurrency errors, of which one of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Simone Atzeni , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

In previous work we describe a novel approach to dependent typing based on a multivalued term language. In this technical report we formalise the runtime, a kind of operational semantics, for that language. We describe a fairly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Neal Glew , Tim Sweeney , Leaf Petersen

The development of concurrent applications is challenging because of the complexity of concurrent designs and the hazards of concurrent programming. Architectural modeling using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can support the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Benjamin Morandi , Scott West , Sebastian Nanz , Hassan Gomaa

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has become a crucial paradigm for managing the growing complexity of modern software systems, particularly in fields like machine learning, deep learning, large language models (LLM), and data analytics.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tianyang Wang , Ziqian Bi , Keyu Chen , Jiawei Xu , Qian Niu , Junyu Liu , Benji Peng , Ming Li , Sen Zhang , Xuanhe Pan , Jinlang Wang , Pohsun Feng , Yizhu Wen , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

What provides the highest level of assurance for correctness of execution within a programming language? One answer, and our solution in particular, to this problem is to provide a formalization for, if it exists, the denotational semantics…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Zachary Flores , Angelo Taranto , Eric Bond , Yakir Forman

An empirical study was conducted to analyse design strategies and knowledge used in object-oriented software design. Eight professional programmers experienced with procedural programming languages and either experienced or not experienced…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Françoise Détienne

Formal, mathematically rigorous programming language semantics are the essential prerequisite for the design of logics and calculi that permit automated reasoning about concurrent programs. We propose a novel modular semantics designed to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Crystal Chang Din , Reiner Hähnle , Ludovic Henrio , Einar Broch Johnsen , Violet Ka I Pun , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa

Compositionality of denotational semantics is an important concern in programming semantics. Mathematical operational semantics in the sense of Turi and Plotkin guarantees compositionality, but seen from the point of view of stateful…

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Modern systems require programmers to develop code that dynamically adapts to different contexts, leading to the evolution of new context-oriented programming languages. These languages introduce new software-engineering challenges, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Achiya Elyasaf

We present a new programming paradigm which can be useful, in particular, for implementing window interfaces and parallel algorithms. This paradigm allows a user to define operators which can contain nested operators. The new paradigm is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Pavel Ruzankin

Semantic understanding of programs is a fundamental problem for programming language processing (PLP). Recent works that learn representations of code based on pre-training techniques in NLP have pushed the frontiers in this direction.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Dinglan Peng , Shuxin Zheng , Yatao Li , Guolin Ke , Di He , Tie-Yan Liu