A foundational view on integration problems

  • Authors:
  • Florian Rabe;Michael Kohlhase;Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen (DE);Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen (DE);Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna (IT)

  • Venue:
  • MKM'11 Proceedings of the 18th Calculemus and 10th international conference on Intelligent computer mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The integration of reasoning and computation services across system and language boundaries is a challenging problem of computer science. In this paper, we use integration for the scenario where we have two systems that we integrate by moving problems and solutions between them. While this scenario is often approached from an engineering perspective, we take a foundational view. Based on the generic declarative language MMT, we develop a theoretical framework for system integration using theories and partial theory morphisms. Because MMT permits representations of the meta-logical foundations themselves, this includes integration across logics. We discuss safe and unsafe integration schemes and devise a general form of safe integration.