We consider a specific kind of Abstract State Machines. It is shown how the machines can be used to provide a low-level formal semantics for a tiny object-oriented language, inclu...
A Virtual Machine (VM) is a program running on a conventional microprocessor that emulates the binary instruction set, registers, and memory space of an idealized computing machine...
for a state machine which is an abstraction for an existing sequential circuit, which can be useful for redesign or engineering change. The generated state machines can be further ...
Abstract. Writing an optimizing back end is expensive, in part because it requires mastery of both a target machine and a compiler's internals. We separate these concerns by i...
Abstract. Hierarchical and recursive state machines are suitable abstract models for many software systems. In this paper we extend a model recently introduced in literature, by al...
Salvatore La Torre, Margherita Napoli, Mimmo Paren...