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Only limited progress has been made so far towards an axiomatic semantics or discovering the algebraic rules that characterise Handel-C programs. In this paper we present a UTP semantics together with extensions we needed to include in order to express Handel-C properties that were not addressable with standard UTP. We also show how our extensions can be abstracted to a more general context and prove a set of algebraic rules that hold for them. Finally, we use the semantics to prove some properties about Handel-C constructs.
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Perna, J.I., Woodcock, J. (2010). UTP Semantics for Handel-C. In: Butterfield, A. (eds) Unifying Theories of Programming. UTP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14521-6_9
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