Objective Headed by Principal Investigator Glynn Winskel, the project ECSYM assembles a world-leading team of theoretical computer scientists and mathematicians. Their goal: to build the next-generation semantics---a new mathematical foundation with which to understand and analyze computation of the complexity we begin to see today. The proposal arises in answer to the anomalies found in today's theories of computation and to the commonality and need for shared techniques becoming apparent across a range of seemingly disparate areas, through security protocols, systems biology, model checking, computational games, types and proof.The evidence points to a new intensional semantics, one in which the current distinctions between operational and denotational semantics disappear. It leads to the project ECSYM (Events, Causality and SYMmetry). The project marries the vision of Scott and Strachey, who sought a comprehensive semantics of computation, with Petri's analysis of computation, as emergent from local causal structure between basic events. A key insight is the increased expressivity a treatment of behavioural symmetry brings to causal models, to the types, processes, operations and applications they can support. Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-AG-PE6 - ERC Advanced Grant - Computer science and informatics Call for proposal ERC-2010-AdG_20100224 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Coordinator THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Address Trinity lane the old schools CB2 1TN Cambridge United Kingdom See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Renata Schaeffer (Ms.) Principal investigator Glynn Winskel (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom EU contribution € 2 347 998,80 Address Trinity lane the old schools CB2 1TN Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Renata Schaeffer (Ms.) Principal investigator Glynn Winskel (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
