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Operational Semantics of DEMOS 2000
Tofts, Chris; Birtwistle, Graham
HPL-2001-263
Keyword(s): semantics; discrete event simulation; functional programming; correctness
Abstract: We take a process oriented simulation language, DEMOS 2000, and define its operational semantics. This achieves two goals: firstly, we can unambiguously define the behaviour of any DEMOS program; secondly, we can use the semantics to check the behaviour of any implementation of the language. An operational semantics has been given for the simple synchronisation fragment of mu DEMOS before (Birtwistle & Tofts, 1993, 1994), but that fragment lacked many features of a complete discrete event simulation language. DEMOS 2000 is a slight redesign of DEMOS that frees it from the underlying Simula. In this semantics we give an account of the complete language which includes features such as: parametric classes; value, resource, entity handling synchronisations; multi-way competing synchronisations; priority; conditional synchronisations; random number sampling; data dependent entities; data dependent work. Notes: Graham Birtwistle, School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, UK.
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