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Generalized Refocusing: From Hybrid Strategies to Abstract Machines

Authors Malgorzata Biernacka, Witold Charatonik, Klara Zielinska

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  • reduction semantics
  • abstract machines
  • formal verification
  • Coq

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Abstract

We present a generalization of the refocusing procedure that provides a generic method for deriving an abstract machine from a specification of a reduction semantics satisfying simple initial conditions. The proposed generalization is applicable to a class of reduction semantics encoding hybrid strategies as well as uniform strategies handled by the original refocusing method. The resulting machine is proved to correctly trace (i.e., bisimulate in smaller steps) the input reduction semantics. The procedure and the correctness proofs have been formalized in the Coq proof assistant.

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Malgorzata Biernacka, Witold Charatonik, and Klara Zielinska. Generalized Refocusing: From Hybrid Strategies to Abstract Machines. In 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 84, pp. 10:1-10:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.10

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Malgorzata Biernacka
Witold Charatonik
Klara Zielinska

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