A logical correspondence between natural semantics and abstract machines

  • Authors:
  • Robert J. Simmons;Ian Zerny

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University;Aarhus University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a logical correspondence between natural semantics and abstract machines. This correspondence enables the mechanical and fully-correct construction of an abstract machine from a natural semantics. Our logical correspondence mirrors the Reynolds functional correspondence, but we manipulate semantic specifications encoded in a logical framework instead of manipulating functional programs. Natural semantics and abstract machines are instances of substructural operational semantics. As a byproduct, using a substructural logical framework, we bring concurrent and stateful models into the domain of the logical correspondence.