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Necessity Specifications for Robustness

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arxiv 2209.08205 v1 pith:4AVCKFS4 submitted 2022-09-17 cs.PL

Necessity Specifications for Robustness

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keywords necessityrobustnessspecificationsbehaviourproofcallscapturingclients
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Robust modules guarantee to do only what they are supposed to do - even in the presence of untrusted, malicious clients, and considering not just the direct behaviour of individual methods, but also the emergent behaviour from calls to more than one method. Necessity is a language for specifying robustness, based on novel necessity operators capturing temporal implication, and a proof logic that derives explicit robustness specifications from functional specifications. Soundness and an exemplar proof are mechanised in Coq.

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