Type Directed Specification Refinement
Issue Date
2011-08-31Author
Snyder, Mark Huntington
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
152 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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Specification languages serve a fundamentally different purpose than general-purpose programming languages, and their type systems reflect these needs. Specification type systems must record and track more information for us to reason about a system adequately, and this added expressiveness may lead to an undecidable typing analysis. System level design begins with a high-level specification that is continually refined and expanded with implementation details, constraints, and typing information, down to a concrete specification. During this refinement process, the system is underspecified, and many static analyses aren't applicable until the system is fully specified. However, partial specifications contain valuable information that can inform the refinement process--we can locally inspect parts of the specification from a typing perspective to look for inferrable information or inconsistencies early on to aid the refinement process. This work defines a typing analysis that gathers constraints and typing information to inform the specification refinement process. It explores localized techniques such as local type inference and tracking of values as a means of influencing the specification refinement process.
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