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<H2>UNITY--Chandy and Misra's UNITY formalism</H2>
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<P>The book <EM>Parallel Program Design: A Foundation</EM> by Chandy and Misra
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(Addison-Wesley, 1988) presents UNITY, which consists of an abstract
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programming language of guarded assignments and an associated calculus.
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Misra's 1994 paper "A Logic for Concurrent Programming" presents "New UNITY",
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giving more elegant foundations for a more general class of languages.
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<P> This directory is a preliminary formalization of New UNITY. The Isabelle
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examples may not represent the most natural treatment of UNITY style. Hand
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UNITY proofs tend to be written in the forwards direction, as in informal
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mathematics, while Isabelle works best in a backwards (goal-directed) style.
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The syntax, also, is rather unnatural. Programs are expressed as sets of
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commands, where each command is a relation on states. Quantification over
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commands using [] is easily expressed. At present, there are no examples of
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quantification using ||.
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<P>
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The directory presents a few small examples, mostly taken from Misra's 1994
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paper:
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<UL>
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<LI>common meeting time
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<LI>the token ring
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<LI>the communication network
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<LI><EM>n</EM>-process deadlock
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<LI>unordered channel
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<LI>reachability in directed graphs (section 6.4 of the book)
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</UL>
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<P> Safety proofs (invariants) are often proved automatically. Progress
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proofs involving ENSURES can sometimes be proved automatically. The
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level of automation appears to be about the same as in HOL-UNITY by Flemming
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Andersen et al.
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<P>Last modified on $Date$
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<ADDRESS>
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<A NAME="lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk" HREF="mailto:lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk">lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk</A>
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