Action Semantics is a novel approach to the formal description of
programming languages. Its abstractness is at an intermediate level,
between that of denotational and operational semantics. Action Semantics
has considerable pragmatic advantages over all previous approaches, in
its comprehensibility and accessibility, and especially in the
usefulness of its semantic descriptions of realistic programming
languages. In this volume, Dr Peter Mosses gives a thorough introduction
to action semantics, and provides substantial illustrations of its use.
Graduates of computer science or maths who have an interest in the
semantics of programming languages will find Action Semantics a most
helpful book.