A Kleene Analysis of Mobile Ambients

  • Authors:
  • Flemming Nielson;Hanne Riis Nielson;Shmuel Sagiv

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ESOP '00 Proceedings of the 9th European Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We show how a program analysis technique originally developed for C-like pointer structures can be adapted to analyse the hierarchical structure of processes in the ambient calculus. The technique is based on modeling the semantics of the language in a two-valued logic; by reinterpreting the logical formulae in Kleene's three-valued logic we obtain an analysis allowing us to reason about may as well as must properties. The correctness of the approach follows from a general Embedding Theorem for Kleene's logic; furthermore embeddings allow us to reduce the size of structures so as to control the time and space complexity of the analysis.