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Lem: reusable engineering of real-world semantics

The work

AuthorsDominic P. Mulligan; Scott Owens; Kathryn E. Gray; Tom Ridge; Peter Sewell
Editors
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Year2014
Citekeymulligan2014lem

Where it appeared

Published inACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
Pages175--188

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/2628136.2628143
OpenAlexW2003556922

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Abstract

Recent years have seen remarkable successes in rigorous engineering: using mathematically rigorous semantic models (not just idealised calculi) of real-world processors, programming languages, protocols, and security mechanisms, for testing, proof, analysis, and design. Building these models is challenging, requiring experimentation, dialogue with vendors or standards bodies, and validation; their scale adds engineering issues akin to those of programming to the task of writing clear and usable mathematics. But language and tool support for specification is lacking. Proof assistants can be used but bring their own difficulties, and a model produced in one, perhaps requiring many person-years effort and maintained over an extended period, cannot be used by those familiar with another.

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@misc{mulligan2014lem,
  title        = {Lem: reusable engineering of real-world semantics},
  author       = {Dominic P. Mulligan and Scott Owens and Kathryn E. Gray and Tom Ridge and Peter Sewell},
  year         = {2014},
  journal      = {ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)},
  pages        = {175--188},
  doi          = {10.1145/2628136.2628143},
}

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