We present a labelled semantics for Soft Concurrent Constraint Programming (SCCP), a meta-language where concurrent agents may synchronise on a shared store by either posting or checking the satisfaction of (soft) constraints. SCCP generalises the classical formalism by parametrising the constraint system over an order-enriched monoid, thus abstractly representing the store with an element of the monoid, and the standard unlabelled semantics just observes store updates. The novel operational rules are shown to offer a sound and complete co-inductive technique to prove the original equivalence over the unlabelled semantics. Based on this characterisation, we provide an axiomatisation for finite agents.

Observational and behavioural equivalences for soft concurrent constraint programming

GADDUCCI, FABIO;
2017-01-01

Abstract

We present a labelled semantics for Soft Concurrent Constraint Programming (SCCP), a meta-language where concurrent agents may synchronise on a shared store by either posting or checking the satisfaction of (soft) constraints. SCCP generalises the classical formalism by parametrising the constraint system over an order-enriched monoid, thus abstractly representing the store with an element of the monoid, and the standard unlabelled semantics just observes store updates. The novel operational rules are shown to offer a sound and complete co-inductive technique to prove the original equivalence over the unlabelled semantics. Based on this characterisation, we provide an axiomatisation for finite agents.
2017
Gadducci, Fabio; Santini, Francesco; Pino, Luis F.; Valencia, Frank D.
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