Exercises in coalgebraic specification

  • Authors:
  • Bart Jacobs

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Nijmegen

  • Venue:
  • Algebraic and coalgebraic methods in the mathematics of program construction
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

An introduction to coalgebraic specification is presented via examples. A coalgebralc specification describes a collection of coalgebras satisfying certain assertions. It is thus an axiomatic description of a particular class of mathematical structures. Such specifications are especially suitable for state-based dynamical systems in general, and for classes in object-oriented programming languages in particular. This chapter will gradually introduce the notions of bisimilarity, invariance, component classes, temporal logic and refinement in a coalgebraic setting. Besides the running example of the coalgebraic specification of (possibly infinite) binary trees, a specification of Peterson's mutual exclusion algorithm is elaborated in detail.