A Control Flow Analysis for Beta-binders with and without static compartments

  • Authors:
  • Chiara Bodei

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Via Pontecorvo, 56127 Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a Control Flow Analysis, that statically approximates the dynamic behaviour of processes, expressed in the Beta-binders calculus and in an extended version of the calculus modelling static compartments. Our analysis of a system is able to describe the essential behaviour of each box, tracking all the possible bindings of variables, all the possible intra- and inter-boxes communications, and, finally, all the possible movements across compartments. The analysis offers a basis for establishing static checks of biological dynamic properties. We apply our analysis to an abstract specification of the interaction between a virus and cells of the immune system and to a model of the cAMP-signaling Pathway in Olfactory Sensory Neurons.