@inproceedings{573eb1f81e5d4bafa20fe9788ff914fa,
title = "Rule formats for determinism and idempotence",
abstract = "Determinism is a semantic property of (a fragment of) a language that specifies that a program cannot evolve operationally in several different ways. Idempotence is a property of binary composition operators requiring that the composition of two identical specifications or programs will result in a piece of specification or program that is equivalent to the original components. In this paper, we propose two (related) meta-theorems for guaranteeing determinism and idempotence of binary operators. These meta-theorems are formulated in terms of syntactic templates for operational semantics, called rule formats. We show the applicability of our formats by applying them to various operational semantics from the literature.",
author = "L. Aceto and A. Birgisson and A. Ing{\'o}lfsd{\'o}ttir and M.R. Mousavi and M.A. Reniers",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-11623-0_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-11622-3",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "146--161",
editor = "F. Arbab and M. Sirjani",
booktitle = "Fundamentals of Software Engineering (Third IPM International Conference, FSEN 2009, Kish Island, Iran, April 15-17, 2009. Revised Selected Papers)",
address = "Germany",
}