Book DescriptionThis book provides a gentle, software engineering oriented introduction to category theory Assuming only a minimum of mathematical preparation, this book explores the use of categorical constructions from the point of view of the methodsand techniques that have been proposed for the engineering of complex software systems: озмйа object-oriented development, software architectures, logical and algebraic specification techniques, models of concurrency, inter alia After two parts in which basicand more advanced categorical concepts and techniques are introduced, the book illustrates their application to the semantics of CommUnity – a language for the architectural design of interactive systems.  Переводчики:2004 г 250 стр ISBN 3540209093.