Permission-Based Separation Logic for Message-Passing Concurrency

We develop local reasoning techniques for message passing concurrent programs based on ideas from separation logics and resource usage analysis. We extend processes with permission- resources and define a reduction semantics for this extended language. This provides a foundation for interpreting sep...

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Main Authors: Adrian Francalanza, Julian Rathke, Vladimiro Sassone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. 2011-09-01
Series:Logical Methods in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lmcs.episciences.org/772/pdf
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Summary:We develop local reasoning techniques for message passing concurrent programs based on ideas from separation logics and resource usage analysis. We extend processes with permission- resources and define a reduction semantics for this extended language. This provides a foundation for interpreting separation formulas for message-passing concurrency. We also define a sound proof system permitting us to infer satisfaction compositionally using local, separation-based reasoning.
ISSN:1860-5974