A Fully Abstract Game Semantics for Parallelism with Non-Blocking Synchronization on Shared Variables

We present a fully abstract game semantics for an Algol-like parallel language with non-blocking synchronization primitive. Elaborating on Harmer\u27s game model for nondeterminism, we develop a game framework appropriate for modeling parallelism. The game is a sophistication of the wait-notify game proposed in a previous work, which makes the signals for thread scheduling explicit with a certain set of extra moves. The extra moves induce a Kleisli category of games, on which we develop a game semantics of the Algol-like parallel language and establish the full abstraction result with a significant use of the non-blocking synchronization operation

XML stream transformer generation through program composition and dependency analysis

AbstractXML stream transformation, which sequentially processes the input XML data on the fly, makes it possible to process large sized data within a limited amount of memory. Though being efficient in memory-use, stream transformation requires stateful programming, which is error-prone and hard to manage.This paper proposes a scheme for generating XML stream transformers. Given an attribute grammar definition of transformation over an XML tree structure, we systematically derive a stream transformer in two steps. First, an attribute grammar definition of the XML stream transformation is inferred by applying a program composition method. Second, a finite state transition machine is constructed through a dependency analysis. Due to the closure property of the program composition method, our scheme also allows modular construction of XML stream transformers.We have implemented a prototype XML stream transformer generator, called altSAX. The experimental results show that the generated transformers are efficient in memory consumption as well as in execution time