A trace-based model for multiparty contracts

نویسندگان

  • Tom Hvitved
  • Felix Klaedtke
  • Eugen Zalinescu
چکیده

In this article we present a model for multiparty contracts in which contract conformance is defined abstractly as a property on traces. A key feature of our model is blame assignment, which means that for a given contract, every breach is attributed to a set of parties. We show that blame assignment is compositional by defining contract conjunction and contract disjunction. Moreover, to specify real-world contracts, we introduce the contract specification language CSL with an operational semantics. We show that each CSL contract has a counterpart in our trace-based model and from the operational semantics we derive a run-time monitor. CSL overcomes limitations of previously proposed formalisms for specifying contracts by supporting: (history sensitive and conditional) commitments, parametrised contract templates, relative and absolute temporal constraints, potentially infinite contracts, and in-place arithmetic expressions. Finally, we illustrate the general applicability of CSL by formalising in CSL various contracts from different domains.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Log. Algebr. Program.

دوره 81  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012