Reasoning About Programs by Exploiting the Environment

  • Authors:
  • Limor Fix;Fred B. Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Reasoning About Programs by Exploiting the Environment
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

A method for making aspects of a computational model explicit in the formulas of a programming logic is given. The method is based on a new notion of environment -an environment augments the state transitions defined by a program''s atomic actions rather than being interleaved with them. Two simple semantic principles are presented for extending a programming logic in order to reason about executions feasible in various environments. The approach is illustrated by (i) discussing a new way to reason in TLA and Hoare-style programming logics about real-time and by (ii) deriving the first TLA and Hoare-style proof rules for reasoning about schedulers.