Developments in Concurrent Kleene Algebra

  • Tony Hoare
  • , Stephan Van Staden
  • , Bernhard Möller
  • , Georg Struth
  • , Jules Villard
  • , Huibiao Zhu
  • , Peter O'Hearn

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Abstract

This report summarises recent progress in the research of its co-authors towards the construction of links between algebraic presentations of the principles of programming and the exploitation of concurrency in modern programming practice. The research concentrates on the construction of a realistic family of partial order models for Concurrent Kleene Algebra (aka, the Laws of Programming). The main elements of the model are objects and the events in which they engage. Further primitive concepts are traces, errors and failures, and transferrable ownership. In terms of these we can define other concepts which have proved useful in reasoning about concurrent programs, for example causal dependency and independence, sequentiality and concurrency, allocation and disposal, synchrony and asynchrony, sharing and locality, input and output.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRelational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science - 14th International Conference, RAMiCS 2014, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1-18
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783319062501
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event14th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2014 - Marienstatt, Germany
Duration: 28 Apr 20141 May 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8428 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, RAMiCS 2014
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMarienstatt
Period28/04/141/05/14

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