Compositional Specification in Rewriting Logic. Issue 1 (9th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: MARTÍN, ÓSCAR; VERDEJO, ALBERTO; MARTÍ-OLIET, NARCISO
• Is Part Of: Theory and practice of logic programming. Volume 20:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 44
• Page End: 98
• Publication Date: 2019-10-09
• Subjects: compositional specification, -- rewriting logic, -- modularity, -- synchronous product; Logic programming -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Constraint programming (Computer science) -- Periodicals; 005.115
• DOI: 10.1017/S1471068419000425
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-0684

Abstract

Abstract: Rewriting logic is naturally concurrent: several subterms of the state term can be rewritten simultaneously. But state terms are global, which makes compositionality difficult to achieve. Compositionality here means being able to decompose a complex system into its functional components and code each as an isolated and encapsulated system. Our goal is to help bringing compositionality to system specification in rewriting logic. The base of our proposal is the operation that we call synchronous composition. We discuss the motivations and implications of our proposal, formalize it for rewriting logic and also for transition structures, to be used as semantics, and show the power of our approach with some examples.