A New Roadmap for Linking Theories of Programming

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• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10134
• 期：1
• 页码：26-43
• 丛书名：Unifying Theories of Programming
• ISBN：978-3-319-52228-9
• 卷排序：10134

文摘

Formal methods advocate the crucial role played by the algebraic approach in specification and implementation of programs. Traditionally, a top-down approach (with denotational model as its origin) links the algebra of programs with the denotational representation by establishment of the soundness and completeness of the algebra against the given model, while a bottom-up approach (a journey started from operational model) introduces a variety of bisimulations to establish the equivalence relation among programs, and then presents a set of algebraic laws in support of program analysis and verification. This paper proposes a new roadmap for linking theories of programming. Our approach takes an algebra of programs as its foundation, and generates both denotational and operational representations from the algebraic refinement relation.