Semantics of templates in a compositional framework for building logics

DOI10.1017/S1471068415000319zbMATH Open1379.68092arXiv1507.06778MaRDI QIDQ4593008FDOQ4593008

Authors: Ingmar Dasseville, Matthias van der Hallen, Gerda Janssens, Marc Denecker 

Publication date: 9 November 2017

Published in: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is a growing need for abstractions in logic specification languages such as FO(.) and ASP. One technique to achieve these abstractions are templates (sometimes called macros). While the semantics of templates are virtually always described through a syntactical rewriting scheme, we present an alternative view on templates as second order definitions. To extend the existing definition construct of FO(.) to second order, we introduce a powerful compositional framework for defining logics by modular integration of logic constructs specified as pairs of one syntactical and one semantical inductive rule. We use the framework to build a logic of nested second order definitions suitable to express templates. We show that under suitable restrictions, the view of templates as macros is semantically correct and that adding them does not extend the descriptive complexity of the base logic, which is in line with results of existing approaches.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06778

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zbMATH Keywords

templatesmodularitysemanticscompositionalitymacrossecond order logic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical aspects of software engineering (specification, verification, metrics, requirements, etc.) (68N30) Logic in computer science (03B70)

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Uses Software

• HiLog
• STL

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