The Rewriting Logic Semantics Project

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Abstract

Rewriting logic is a flexible and expressive logical framework that unifies denotational semantics and SOS in a novel way, avoiding their respective limitations and allowing very succinct semantic definitions. The fact that a rewrite theory's axioms include both equations and rewrite rules provides a very useful "abstraction knob" to find the right balance between abstraction and observability in semantic definitions. Such semantic definitions are directly executable as interpreters in a rewriting logic language such as Maude, whose generic formal tools can be used to endow those interpreters with powerful program analysis capabilities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)27-56
Number of pages30
JournalElectronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Volume156
Issue number1 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - May 15 2006

Keywords

  • Semantics and analysis of programming languages
  • rewriting logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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