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Despite the conceptual simplicity of sequential consistency (SC), the semantics of SC atomic operations and fences in the C11 and OpenCL memory models is subtle, leading to convoluted prose descriptions that translate to complex axiomatic…
CSPe is a specification language for runtime monitors that can directly express concurrency in a bottom-up manner that composes the system from simpler, interacting components. It includes constructs to explicitly flag failures to the…
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Probabilistic transition system specifications (PTSSs) in the $nt \mu f\theta / nt\mu x\theta$ format provide structural operational semantics for Segala-type systems that exhibit both probabilistic and nondeterministic behavior and…
We generalise the notion of coherent states to arbitrary Lie algebras by making an analogy with the GNS construction in $C^*$-algebras. The method is illustrated with examples of semisimple and non-semisimple finite dimensional Lie algebras…
We present a functional programming language for specifying constraints over tree-shaped data. The language allows for Haskell-like algebraic data types and pattern matching. Our constraint compiler CO4 translates these programs into…
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Reasoning about program equivalence in imperative languages is notoriously challenging, as the presence of states (in the form of variable stores) fundamentally increases the observational power of program terms. The key desideratum for any…
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