nLab Bob Walters

Bob Walters, often called R F C Walters, taught at the University of Sydney and died in January 2015.

• Web biography (link no longer working?)

• blog

• list of publications

• list of publications at University of Sydney

• Como Category Theory Archive

Selected writings

On closed bicategories and locally internal categories:

• Renato Betti, Robert F. C. Walters, Closed bicategories and variable category theory, Universita degli Studi di Milano (1985), reprinted in: Reprints in Theory and Applications of Categories, 26 (2020) 1-27 $[$tac:tr26$]$

On extensive categories and distributive categories:

• Aurelio Carboni, Stephen Lack, R. F. C. Walters, Introduction to extensive and distributive categories, JPAA 84 (1993) pp. 145-158 (doi:10.1016/0022-4049(93)90035-R)

On Cartesian bicategories:

• Aurelio Carboni, Bob Walters, Cartesian Bicategories, I, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Volume 49, Issues 1–2, November 1987, (doi:10.1016/0022-4049(87)90121-6)

• Aurelio Carboni, Max Kelly, Bob Walters, Richard Wood, Cartesian Bicategories II, Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 19, 2008, No. 6, pp 93-124. (arXiv:0708.1921, tac)

• Piergiulio Katis, Nicoletta Sabadini and Bob Walters, On the algebra of feedback and systems with boundary, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo. (2) Supplemento, 64 (2000), 123–156. (pdf)

• Piergiulio Katis, Nicoletta Sabadini and Bob Walters, Bicategories of processes. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 115 (1997), 141–178. (pdf)

• Piergiulio Katis, Nicoletta Sabadini and Bob Walters, Span(Graph): A categorical algebra of transition systems, Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, AMAST ‘97, Michael Johnson (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Germany, (1997), 307–321. (ps)

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