Logical Foundations of CafeOBJ (abstract)
- This paper surveys the logical foundations and semantics of
CafeOBJ, which is a successor of the famous algebraic specification
language OBJ but adding several new primitive paradigms such as
rewriting logic and behavioural concurrent specification.
- We first give a concise overview of CafeOBJ. Then we concentrate
on the actual logical foundations of the language. We survey some
novel or more classical theoretical concepts supporting the logical
semantics of CafeOBJ together with pointing to the main results but
without giving proofs and without discussing all mathematical
details. However for proofs and for some of the mathematical details
not discussed here we give pointers to relevant publications.
- The logical foundations of CafeOBJ are structured by the concept
of institution. Moreover, the design of CafeOBJ emerged from
its
- logical foundations, and institution concepts played a crucial
role in structuring the language design.
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