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In this paper we propose an abstract certification technique for Java which is based on rewriting logic, a very general logical and semantic framework efficiently implemented in the functional programming language Maude. Starting from a specification of the Java semantics written in Maude, we develop an abstract, finite-state operational semantics also written in Maude which is appropriate for program verification. As a by-product of the abstract verification, a dependable safety certificate is delivered which consists of a set of (abstract) rewriting proofs that can be easily checked by the code consumer using a standard rewriting logic engine. Our certification methodology extends to other programming languages by simply replacing the concrete semantics of Java by a semantics for the programming language at hand. The abstract proof-carrying code technique has been implemented and successfully tested on several examples, which demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.
This work has been partially supported by the EU (FEDER) and the Spanish MEC, under grants TIN2004-7943-C04-01 and TIN2007-68093-C02-02, Integrated Action HA 2006-0007, LERNet AML/19.0902/97/0666/II-0472-FA, and Generalitat Valenciana GV06/285.
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Alba-Castro, M., Alpuente, M., Escobar, S. (2008). Automatic Certification of Java Source Code in Rewriting Logic. In: Leue, S., Merino, P. (eds) Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems. FMICS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4916. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79707-4_15
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