# Announce paper: Mendler, Panangaden, Scott, & Seely


The following paper has been placed on anonymous ftp at
triples.math.mcgill.ca in directory (file)  /pub/rags/ccp/mpss.*

A Logical View of Concurrent Constraint Programming
by
Nax Paul Mendler
P.J. Scott
R.A.G. Seely

Abstract;
The Concurrent Constraint Programming paradigm has been the subject of
growing interest as the focus of a new paradigm for concurrent computation.
Like logic programming it claims close relations to logic.  In fact these
languages _are_ logics in a certain sense that we make precise in this
paper.  In recent work it was shown that the denotational semantics of
determinate concurrent constraint programming languages forms a categorical
structure called a hyperdoctrine, which is used as the basis of the
categorical formulation of first order logic.  What this connection shows
is the combinators of determinate concurrent constraint programming can be
viewed as logical connectives.  In the present work we extend these ideas
to the operational semantics of these languages and thus make available
similar analogies for a much broader variety of languages including the
indeterminate concurrent constraint programming languages and concurrent
block-structured imperative languages.

\begin{BTW}
In the same directory you will find the earlier paper dealing with the
denotational semantics (psss*).  This paper has appeared:
P. Panangaden, V. Saraswat, P. J. Scott, R. A. G. Seely,
A Hyperdoctrinal View of Concurrent Constraint Programming, in J.W. de Bakkee
et al, eds.   Semantics: Foundations and Applications; Proceedings of
REX Workshop, Beekbergen, The Netherlands, June 1992.  Springer Lecture
Notes in Comp. Science, 666 (1993) pp. 457 -- 476.
\end{BTW}