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We introduce a general diagrammatic theory of digital circuits, based on connections between monoidal categories and graph rewriting. The main achievement of the paper is conceptual, filling a foundational gap in reasoning syntactically and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Dan R. Ghica , Achim Jung , Aliaume Lopez

Compact closed categories provide a foundational formalism for a variety of important domains, including quantum computation. These categories have a natural visualisation as a form of graphs. We present a formalism for equational reasoning…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-02-04 Lucas Dixon , Ross Duncan

We present a term rewriting system that models the dynamic aspects of the free cornering with protocol choice of a monoidal category, which has been proposed as a categorical model of process interaction. This term rewriting system is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Chad Nester , Niels Voorneveld

This paper introduces cozy, a tool for analyzing and visualizing differences between two versions of a software binary. The primary use case for cozy is validating "micropatches": small binary or assembly-level patches inserted into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Caleb Helbling , Graham Leach-Krouse , Sam Lasser , Greg Sullivan

Rewriting systems are often defined as binary relations over a given set of objects. This simple definition is used to describe various properties of rewriting such as termination, confluence, normal forms etc. In this paper, we introduce a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Dominique Duval , Rachid Echahed , Frédéric Prost

We describe several technical tools that prove to be efficient for investigating the rewrite systems associated with a family of algebraic laws, and might be useful for more general rewrite systems. These tools consist in introducing a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Patrick Dehornoy

VOSviewer is a computer program for creating, visualizing, and exploring bibliometric maps of science. In this report, the new text mining functionality of VOSviewer is presented. A number of examples are given of applications in which…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Nees Jan van Eck , Ludo Waltman

We consider the problem of automatically verifying programs which manipulate arbitrary data structures. Our specification language is expressive, contains a notion of \emph{separation}, and thus enables a precise specification of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Duc-Hiep Chu , Joxan Jaffar

Kan extensions provide a natural general framework for a variety of combinatorial problems. We have developed rewriting procedures for Kan extensions (over the category of sets) and this enables one program to address a wide range of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anne Heyworth

Graphical languages are a convenient shorthand to represent computation, with rewrite rules relating one graph to another. In contrast, proof assistants rely heavily on inductive datatypes, particularly when giving semantics to embedded…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adrian Lehmann , Ben Caldwell , Bhakti Shah , William Spencer , Robert Rand

The study of abstraction and composition - the focus of category theory - naturally leads to sophisticated diagrams which can encode complex algebraic semantics. Consequently, these diagrams facilitate a clearer visual comprehension of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Vincent Abbott , Gioele Zardini

These are lectures notes for a mini-course given at the conference Interactions of Quantum Affine Algebras with Cluster Algebras, Current Algebras, and Categorification in June 2018. The goal is to introduce the reader to string diagram…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Alistair Savage

We show how the categorial approach to inverse monoids can be described as a certain endofunctor (which we call the partialization functor) of some category. In this paper we show that this functor can be used to obtain several recently…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Ganna Kudryavtseva , Volodymyr Mazorchuk

We describe several views of the semantics of a simple programming language as formal documents in the calculus of inductive constructions that can be verified by the Coq proof system. Covered aspects are natural semantics, denotational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-07-10 Yves Bertot

We present a new model of computation, described in terms of monoidal categories. It conforms the Church-Turing Thesis, and captures the same computable functions as the standard models. It provides a succinct categorical interface to most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Dusko Pavlovic

We build a symmetric monoidal and compact closed bicategory by combining spans and cospans inside a topos. This can be used as a framework in which to study open networks and diagrammatic languages. We illustrate this framework with Coecke…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Daniel Cicala

We develop a theory of rewriting for structured cospans in order to extend compositional methods for modeling open networks. First, we introduce a category whose objects are structured cospans, and establish conditions under which it is…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Daniel Cicala

We develop a categorical compositional distributional semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality !L*, which has a limited edition of the contraction and permutation rules. The categorical part of the semantics is a monoidal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lachlan McPheat , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Hadi Wazni , Gijs Wijnholds

We generalise classical reconstruction results in algebra, using the language of monads, monoidal categories, module categories, as well as various notions of duality, such as closedness, Grothendieck--Verdier duality (also known as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Tony Zorman

The correspondence between monoidal categories and graphical languages of diagrams has been studied extensively, leading to applications in quantum computing and communication, systems theory, circuit design and more. From the categorical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Dan R Ghica , Aliaume Lopez