TY - BOOK AU - Coecke,Bob AU - Ong,Luke AU - Panangaden,Prakash ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations. The Many Facets of Samson Abramsky: Essays Dedicated to Samson Abramsky on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783642381645 AV - QA76.9.L63 U1 - 005.1015113 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Computer science KW - Software engineering KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) KW - Computers KW - Algorithms KW - Computer logic KW - Mathematical logic KW - Computer Science KW - Logics and Meanings of Programs KW - Computation by Abstract Devices KW - Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages KW - Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity KW - Software Engineering KW - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters N1 - Use of a Canonical Hidden-Variable Space in Quantum Mechanics -- Imperfect Information in Logic and Concurrent Games -- Compositional Quantum Logic -- The Algebra of Directed Acyclic Graphs -- Diagrammatic Reasoning for Delay-Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits -- Payoffs, Intensionality and Abstraction in Games -- On the Theory of Composition in Physics -- On the Functor 2 -- Quantum Speedup and Categorical Distributivity -- Unifying Semantics for Concurrent Programming -- Unfixing the Fixpoint: The Theories of the λY -Calculus -- Continuous Domain Theory in Logical Form -- Presheaf Models of Quantum Computation: An Outline -- Nothing Can Be Fixed -- Dialogue Categories and Frobenius Monoids -- Anatomy of a Domain of Continuous Random Variables II -- Towards Nominal Abramsky -- Techniques for Formal Modelling and Analysis of Quantum Systems -- Quantum Field Theory for Legspinners -- Bicompletions of Distance Matrices -- Partial Recursive Functions and Finality -- Breaking the Atom with Samson -- Reasoning about Strategies -- Domain Theory in Topical Form -- Kolmogorov Complexity of Categories N2 - This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Samson Abramsky, contains contributions written by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. In celebration of the 60th birthday of Samson Abramsky, a conference was held in Oxford, UK, during May 28-30, 2010. The papers in this volume represent his manifold contributions to semantics, logic, games, and quantum mechanics UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38164-5 ER -