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Formalising a Value-Passing Calculus in HOL

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Formal Aspects of Computing

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Milner's value-passing calculus for describing and reasoning about communicating systems is formalised in the HOL proof assistant. Based on a previously defined mechanisation of pure CCS (no data communication, only synchronisation) in HOL, value-passing agents are given behavioural semantics by translating them into pure agents. An interactive proof environment is derived that supports both reasoning about the value-passing calculus and verification of value-passing specifications, which are defined over an infinite value domain.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università degli Studi di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, , , , , , IT

    Monica Nesi

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Received September 1997 / Accepted in revised form July 1999

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Nesi, M. Formalising a Value-Passing Calculus in HOL. Formal Aspects of Computing 11, 160–199 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001650050046

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