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Abstracting Interference in Postconditions

Lookup NU author(s): Diego Machado Dias, Dr Leo Freitas, Emeritus Professor Cliff JonesORCiD

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This is the final published version of a report that has been published in its final definitive form by School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014.

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Abstract

Specification of concurrent processes in rely-guarantee may require a postcondition of a process to account for changes made by the environment on the shared state. This leads to complicate postconditions, and distracts the designer from specifying the changes the process should make on the program state. We found that, when used in postconditions, the notion of possible values shifts the designer's perspective from a global view of the parallelism to a local view of it. This enhances the separation of concerns between the rely and the postcondition and may reduce the gap between a sequential and a concurrent version of the same process. In view of this finding, this document is concerned with a preliminary investigation of a semantics for possible values, and the consequence on the proof obligations.


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Author(s): Dias D, Freitas L, Jones C

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2014

Pages: 15

Print publication date: 01/03/2014

Source Publication Date: March 2014

Report Number: 1415

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1415.pdf


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