Towards Mobile Processes in Unifying Theories

Tang, Xinbei, Woodcock, Jim (2004) Towards Mobile Processes in Unifying Theories. In: Cuellar, Jorge and Liu, Zhiming, eds. SEFM2004: the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods. . pp. 44-53. IEEE Computer Society Press., Beijing, China ISBN 0-7695-2222-X. (doi:10.1109/SEFM.2004.1347502) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14075)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SEFM.2004.1347502

Abstract

This paper presents a denotational semantics of mobile processes in Hoare & He's Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP). Process mobility is captured by the mobile assignment or communication of higher-order variables, in which both the source and the target are process-valued variables. Processes are moved around in the system by updating the target and losing the value of the source. The semantics can be used to guarantee the correctness of a set of algebraic of refinement laws for the step-wise development of mobile systems. We give an outline of this development method, present and prove some of the laws.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (Paper)
DOI/Identification number:	10.1109/SEFM.2004.1347502
Additional information:	To appear
Uncontrolled keywords:	Mobile processes, denotational semantics, UTP, higher-order programming
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:01 UTC
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2021 09:52 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14075 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Woodcock, Jim.

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