SemTech
Semantic Technologies for Computer Science Education
The project "SemTech" is jointly sponsored by the Austrian OEAD WTZ program and the Slovak
SRDA agency
under the contract SK 14/2018. This project runs from January 2018 till
December 2019 and is
jointly pursued by the following two groups:
- Research Institute for Symbolic
Computation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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- Department of Computers and
Informatics, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
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This project pursues the novel application of technologies which
are based on the
semantics of formal languages (programming languages, the
language of predicate logic, etc) to the
education of university students in
formal models of computer science. This research is based on the expertise of
both cooperation partners gained in prior relevant research and development
projects. The Slovakian partner is well renowned in the area of formal semantics
of programming languages resulting for instance in a tool that visualizes the
execution of programs based on notions from category theory. The Austrian
partner has ample background in logic and formal methods in computer science
leading e.g. to the development of software tools for the computer-aided
specification and verification of programs based on the formal semantics of
program execution. In our cooperation we construct various
theoretical and practical interconnections between our research, enabling for
instance the Austrian side to integrate novel visualization techniques into
their tools, and enabling the Slovakian side to find novel domains of
applications for their research results. In particular, we perform research
on novel models of the operational interpretation of the evaluation of predicate
logic formulas with the goal of aiding students in the understanding of complex
formulas as arise in the the specification and verification of computer
programs.
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modified: January 2018
