Twenty years of rewriting logic

AbstractRewriting logic is a simple computational logic that can naturally express both concurrent computation and logical deduction with great generality. This paper provides a gentle, intuitive introduction to its main ideas, as well as a survey of the work that many researchers have carried out over the last twenty years in advancing: (i) its foundations; (ii) its semantic framework and logical framework uses; (iii) its language implementations and its formal tools; and (iv) its many applications to automated deduction, software and hardware specification and verification, security, real-time and cyber-physical systems, probabilistic systems, bioinformatics and chemical systems

Representing the MSR Cryptoprotocol Specification Language in an Extension of Rewriting Logic with Dependent Types

This paper presents a shallow and hence efficient embedding of the security protocol specification language MSR into rewriting logic with dependent types, an instance of the open calculus of constructions which integrates key concepts from equational logic, rewriting logic, and type theory. MSR is based on a form of first-order multiset rewriting extended with existential name generation and a flexible type infrastructure centered on dependent types with subsorting. This encoding is intended to serve as the basis for implementing an MSR specification and analysis environment using existing first-order rewriting engines such as Maude