Composing specifications

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi;Leslie Lamport

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA;Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

A rigorous modular specification method requires a proof rule asserting that if each component behaves correctly in isolation, then it behaves correctly in concert with other components. Such a rule is subtle because a component need behave correctly only when its environment does, and each component is part of the others' environments. We examine the precise distinction between a system and its environment, and provide the requisite proof rule when modules are specified with safety and liveness properties.