Atomic blocks, a high-level language construct that allows programmers to explicitly specify the atomicity of operations without worrying about the implementations, are a promising approach that simplifies concurrent ...Atomic blocks, a high-level language construct that allows programmers to explicitly specify the atomicity of operations without worrying about the implementations, are a promising approach that simplifies concurrent programming. On the other hand, temporal logic is a successful model in logic programming and concurrency verification, but none of existing temporal programming models supports concurrent programming with atomic blocks yet. In this paper, we propose a temporal programming model （αPTL） which extends the projection temporal logic （PTL） to support concurrent programming with atomic blocks. The novel construct that formulates atomic execution of code blocks, which we call atomic interval formulas, is always interpreted over two consecutive states, with the internal states of the block being abstracted away. We show that the framing mechanism in projection temporal logic also works in the new model, which consequently supports our development of an executive language. The language supports concurrency by introducing a loose interleaving semantics which tracks only the mutual exclusion between atomic blocks. We demonstrate the usage of αPTL by modeling and verifying both the fine-grained and coarse-grained concurrency.展开更多
The TLL XYZ/E is a formal language able to represent the dynamic semantics and the static semantics in a unified framework. It supports the whole process of program development, i.e. from the abstract specification to...The TLL XYZ/E is a formal language able to represent the dynamic semantics and the static semantics in a unified framework. It supports the whole process of program development, i.e. from the abstract specification to the efficiently executable program in a formal, precise and convenient way. The steam boiler control specification problem, a large case study in the fields of real time, hybrid and communication systems, is discussed with XYZ/E. The approach covers physical model construction, formal specification, stepwise refinement, verification, executable program and visual user interface programming.展开更多
In the last decade temporal logic has been developed into an effective means of specifying and proving properties of programs and behaviour of dynamic information systems.This note presents a natural deduction system ...In the last decade temporal logic has been developed into an effective means of specifying and proving properties of programs and behaviour of dynamic information systems.This note presents a natural deduction system (N system) of propositional temporal logic, which can be easily and immediately extended to other temporal logics.展开更多
基金Acknowledgements We thank for anonymous referees for their suggestions and comments. This research was based on work supported by grants from Science Foundation of China Project （60833001, 61100063, 61073040 and 61103023）, and by a Humboldt Fellowship （X.Y.） from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
文摘Atomic blocks, a high-level language construct that allows programmers to explicitly specify the atomicity of operations without worrying about the implementations, are a promising approach that simplifies concurrent programming. On the other hand, temporal logic is a successful model in logic programming and concurrency verification, but none of existing temporal programming models supports concurrent programming with atomic blocks yet. In this paper, we propose a temporal programming model （αPTL） which extends the projection temporal logic （PTL） to support concurrent programming with atomic blocks. The novel construct that formulates atomic execution of code blocks, which we call atomic interval formulas, is always interpreted over two consecutive states, with the internal states of the block being abstracted away. We show that the framing mechanism in projection temporal logic also works in the new model, which consequently supports our development of an executive language. The language supports concurrency by introducing a loose interleaving semantics which tracks only the mutual exclusion between atomic blocks. We demonstrate the usage of αPTL by modeling and verifying both the fine-grained and coarse-grained concurrency.
文摘The TLL XYZ/E is a formal language able to represent the dynamic semantics and the static semantics in a unified framework. It supports the whole process of program development, i.e. from the abstract specification to the efficiently executable program in a formal, precise and convenient way. The steam boiler control specification problem, a large case study in the fields of real time, hybrid and communication systems, is discussed with XYZ/E. The approach covers physical model construction, formal specification, stepwise refinement, verification, executable program and visual user interface programming.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60073020 (国家自然科学基金)the National High Technology Development 863 Program of China under Grant No.863-306-ZT02-04-01 (国家863高科技发展计划)
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 6863022.
文摘In the last decade temporal logic has been developed into an effective means of specifying and proving properties of programs and behaviour of dynamic information systems.This note presents a natural deduction system (N system) of propositional temporal logic, which can be easily and immediately extended to other temporal logics.
