Formulae meet Programs over the Net: a Framework for Reliable Network Aware Programming

Abstract. A general framework for network aware programming is presented that consists of a language for programming mobile applications, a logic for specifying properties of the applications and an automatic tool for verifying such properties. The framework is based on X-Klaim, eXtended Klaim, an experimental programming language specifically designed to program distributed systems composed of several components interacting through multiple tuple spaces and mobile code. The proposed logic is a modal logic inspired by Hennessy-Milner logic and is interpreted over the same labelled structures used for the operational semantics of X-Klaim. The automatic verification tool is based on a complete proof system that has been previously developed for the logic.