On abstract data types presented by multiequations

  • Authors:
  • J. Adámek;M. Hébert;J. Rosický

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;The American Univ. in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt;Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Equational presentation of abstract data types is generalized to presentation by multiequations, i.e., exclusive-or's of equations, in order to capture parametric data types such as array or set. Multiinitial-algebra semantics for such data types is introduced. Classes of algebras described by multiequations are characterized.