A denotational semantics for PROMELA addressing arbitrary jumps
Abstract
PROMELA (Process Meta Language) is a high-level specification language designed for modeling interactions in distributed systems. PROMELA is used as the input language for the model checker SPIN (Simple Promela INterpreter). The main characteristics of PROMELA are non-determinism, process communication through synchronous as well as asynchronous channels, and the possibility to dynamically create instances of processes. In this paper, we introduce a bottom-up, fixpoint semantics that aims to model the behavior of PROMELA programs. This work is the first step towards a more ambitious goal where analysis and verification techniques based on abstract interpretation would be defined on top of such semantics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.12348,
title = {A denotational semantics for PROMELA addressing arbitrary jumps},
author = {Marco Comini and María del Mar Gallardo and Alicia Villanueva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12348},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Pre-proceedings paper presented at the 31st International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2021), Tallinn, Estonia, and Virtual, September 7-8, 2021 (arXiv:2107.10160)