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Trace-Based Coinductive Operational Semantics for While

Big-Step and Small-Step, Relational and Functional Styles

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Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs 2009)

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We present four coinductive operational semantics for the While language accounting for both terminating and non-terminating program runs: big-step and small-step relational semantics and big-step and small-step functional semantics. The semantics employ traces (possibly infinite sequences of states) to record the states that program runs go through. The relational semantics relate statement-state pairs to traces, whereas the functional semantics return traces for statement-state pairs. All four semantics are equivalent. We formalize the semantics and their equivalence proofs in the constructive setting of Coq.

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  1. Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 21, EE-12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Keiko Nakata & Tarmo Uustalu

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Nakata, K., Uustalu, T. (2009). Trace-Based Coinductive Operational Semantics for While. In: Berghofer, S., Nipkow, T., Urban, C., Wenzel, M. (eds) Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics. TPHOLs 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03359-9_26

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