Iteration Theories: The Equational Logic of Iterative Processes

This monograph contains the results of our joint research over the last ten years on the logic of the fixed point operation. The intended au­ dience consists of graduate students and research scientists interested in mathematical treatments of semantics. We assume the reader has a good mathematical background, although we provide some prelimi­ nary facts in Chapter 1. Written both for graduate students and research scientists in theoret­ ical computer science and mathematics, the book provi...