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Software development: quantomatic, automated graphical reasoning tools

Supervisor

Bob Coecke

Suitable for

MSc in Computer Science
Computer Science and Philosophy, Part C
Computer Science, Part B
Mathematics and Computer Science, Part C
Computer Science, Part C

Abstract

Recent graph-based formalisms for computation provide an abstract and symbolic way to represent and simulate quantum information processing. Manual manipulation of such graphs is slow and error prone. This project employs a formalism, based on monoidal categories, that supports mechanised reasoning with open-graphs. This gives a compositional account of graph rewriting that preserves the underlying categorical semantics.