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A stuttering closed temporal logic for modular reasoning about concurrent programs

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Temporal Logic (ICTL 1994)

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A simple and elegant formulation of compositional proof systems for concurrent programs results from a refinement of temporal logic semantics. The refined temporal language we propose is closed under W-stuttering and, thus, provides a fully abstract semantics with respect to some chosen observation level w. This avoids incorporating irrelevant detail in the temporal semantics of parallel programs. Besides compositional verification, concurrent program design and implementation of a coarser-grained program by a finer-grained one, turn out to be easily practicable in the setting of the new temporal logic.

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Mokkedem, A., Méry, D. (1994). A stuttering closed temporal logic for modular reasoning about concurrent programs. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Temporal Logic. ICTL 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 827. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014000

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