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Concurrency and the Algebraic Theory of Effects

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CONCUR 2012 – Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2012)

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The algebraic theory of effects [7,8,4] continues Moggi’s monadic approach to effects [5,6,1] by concentrating on a particular class of monads: the algebraic ones, that is, the free algebra monads of given equational theories. The operations of such equational theories can be thought of as effect constructors, as it is they that give rise to effects. Examples include exceptions (when the theory is that of a set of constants with no axioms), nondeterminism (when the theory could be that of a semilattice, for nondeterminism, with a zero, for deadlock), and action (when the theory could be a set of unary operations with no axioms).

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  1. LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Gordon D. Plotkin

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  1. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Claremont Tower, Claremont Road, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Maciej Koutny

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, Computer Science Building, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

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Plotkin, G.D. (2012). Concurrency and the Algebraic Theory of Effects. In: Koutny, M., Ulidowski, I. (eds) CONCUR 2012 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32940-1_2

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