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ENTCS
2006
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Compositional Operational Semantics of a UML-Kernel-Model Language
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
ENTCS
2006
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Inductive Proof Outlines for Exceptions in Multithreaded Java
In this paper we give an operational semantics and introduce an assertional proof system for exceptions in a multithreaded Java sublanguage. Key words: Java, multi-threading, exce...
Erika Ábrahám, Frank S. de Boer, Wil...
CLEIEJ
2006
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A semantics for while with break, continue and goto
This work presents a formal description of a subset of a C-like language in the form of an operational semantics. We give semantics to the following statements (presented in alpha...
Patricia Peratto
ENTCS
2008
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Global State Considered Helpful
Reynolds' view of a storage cell as an expression-acceptor pair has been widely used by researchers. We present a different way of organizing semantics of state, and in parti...
Paul Blain Levy
ENTCS
2008
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An Open System Operational Semantics for an Object-Oriented and Component-Based Language
Object orientation and component-based development have both proven useful for the elaboration of open distributed systems. These paradigms are offered by the Creol language. Creo...
Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Olaf Owe
ENTCS
2008
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Complete Laziness: a Natural Semantics
Lazy evaluation (or call-by-need) is widely used and well understood, partly thanks to a clear operational semantics given by Launchbury. However, modern non-strict functional lan...
François-Régis Sinot
ENTCS
2008
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Expressing Priorities and External Probabilities in Process Algebra via Mixed Open/Closed Systems
Defining operational semantics for a process algebra is often based either on labeled transition systems that account for interaction with a context or on the so-called reduction ...
Mario Bravetti
GG
2010
Springer
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Multi-Amalgamation in Adhesive Categories
Abstract. Amalgamation is a well-known concept for graph transformations in order to model synchronized parallelism of rules with shared subrules and corresponding transformations....
Ulrike Golas, Hartmut Ehrig, Annegret Habel
ATAL
2010
Springer
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Programming norm change
To adequately deal with the unpredictable and dynamic environments normative frameworks are typically deployed in, mechanisms for modifying the norms at runtime are crucial. We pr...
Nick A. M. Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules C...
LFP
1990
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Computing with Coercions
d Abstract) V. Breazu-Tannen C. A. Gunter A. Scedrov University of Pennsylvania This paper relates two views of the operational semantics of a language with multiple
Val Tannen, Carl A. Gunter, Andre Scedrov