Programming Research Group
Research ReportRR-01-01
Logic of global synchrony
Yifeng Chen and
J.W.Sanders
January 2001, 30pp.
Abstract
An intermediate-level specification notation is presented for use with BSP-style
programming. It is achieved by extending pre-post semantics to reveal state at
points of global synchronisation. That enables us to integrate the pre-post,
finite and reactive-process styles of specification in BSP, as shown by our
treatment of the dining philosophers. The language is provided with a complete set
of laws and has been formulated to benefit from a simple predicative semantics.
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