A comparative study of two formal semantics of the SIGNAL language |
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Authors: | Zhibin Yang Jean-Paul Bodeveix Mamoun Filali |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China; 2. IRIT-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31062, France |
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Abstract: | SIGNAL is a part of the synchronous languages family, which are broadly used in the design of safety-critical real-time systems such as avionics, space systems, and nuclear power plants. There exist several semantics for SIGNAL, such as denotational semantics based on traces (called trace semantics), denotational semantics based on tags (called tagged model semantics), operational semantics presented by structural style through an inductive definition of the set of possible transitions, operational semantics defined by synchronous transition systems (STS), etc. However, there is little research about the equivalence between these semantics. In this work, we would like to prove the equivalence between the trace semantics and the tagged model semantics, to get a determined and precise semantics of the SIGNAL language. These two semantics have several different definitions respectively, we select appropriate ones and mechanize them in the Coq platform, the Coq expressions of the abstract syntax of SIGNAL and the two semantics domains, i.e., the trace model and the tagged model, are also given. The distance between these two semantics discourages a direct proof of equivalence. Instead, we transformthem to an intermediate model, which mixes the features of both the trace semantics and the tagged model semantics. Finally, we get a determined and precise semantics of SIGNAL. |
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Keywords: | synchronous language SIGNAL trace semantics tagged model semantics semantics equivalence Coq |
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