NDLI: Slot games:a quantitative model of computation

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Ghica, Dan R.
Abstract	We present a games-based denotational semantics for a quantitative analysis of programming languages. We define a Hyland-Ong-style games framework called slot games, which consists of HO games augmented with a new action called token. We develop a slot-game model for the language Idealised Concurrent Algol by instrumenting the strategies in its HO game model with token actions. We show that the slot-game model is a denotational semantics induced by a notion of observation formalised in the operational theory of improvement of Sands, and we give a full abstraction result. A quantitative analysis of programs has many potential applications, from compiler optimisations to resource-constrained execution and static performance profiling. We illustrate several such applications with putative examples that would be nevertheless difficult, if not impossible, to handle using known operational techniques.
Starting Page	85
Ending Page	97
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/1047659.1040313
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Game semantics Algol Quantitative analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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Slot games:a quantitative model of computation