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\(\mathcal{CL}\): An Action-Based Logic for Reasoning about Contracts

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Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2009)

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This paper presents a new version of the \(\mathcal{CL}\) contract specification language. \(\mathcal{CL}\) combines deontic logic with propositional dynamic logic but it applies the modalities exclusively over structured actions. \(\mathcal{CL}\) features synchronous actions, conflict relation, and an action negation operation. The \(\mathcal{CL}\) version that we present here is more expressive and has a cleaner semantics than its predecessor. We give a direct semantics for \(\mathcal{CL}\) in terms of normative structures. We show that \(\mathcal{CL}\) respects several desired properties from legal contracts and is decidable. We relate this semantics with a trace semantics of \(\mathcal{CL}\) which we used for run-time monitoring contracts.

Partially supported by the Nordunet3 project “COSoDIS – Contract-Oriented Software Development for Internet Services” (http://www.ifi.uio.no/cosodis/).

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    Cristian Prisacariu & Gerardo Schneider

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Prisacariu, C., Schneider, G. (2009). \(\mathcal{CL}\): An Action-Based Logic for Reasoning about Contracts. In: Ono, H., Kanazawa, M., de Queiroz, R. (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation. WoLLIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5514. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02261-6_27

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