Paper: A Fully Abstract Semantics for a Concurrent Functional Language with Monadic Types (at LICS 1995)

Authors: Alan Jeffrey

Abstract

This paper presents a typed higher-order concurrent functional programming language, based on Moggi's monadic metalanguage and Reppy's Concurrent ML. We present an operational semantics for the language, and show that a higher-order variant of the traces model is fully abstract for may-testing. This proof uses a program logic based on Hennessy--Milner logic and Abramsky's domain theory in logical form.

BibTeX

  @InProceedings{Jeffrey-AFullyAbstractSeman,
    author = 	 {Alan Jeffrey},
    title = 	 {A Fully Abstract Semantics for a Concurrent Functional Language with Monadic Types},
    booktitle =  {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 1995)},
    year =	 {1995},
    month =	 {June}, 
    pages =      {255--264},
    location =   {San Diego, CA, USA}, 
    publisher =	 {IEEE Computer Society Press}
  }