A Formal Semantics for the SmartFrog Configuration Language
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 59243486
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s10922-015-9351-y
- Title of journal
- Journal of Network and Systems Management
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- First page
- 309
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1064-7570
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - Computer Systems
- Citation count
- 2
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Configuration errors are responsible for a significant proportion of system outages. The languages and procedures used are generally developed in an ad-hoc way and continue to receive very little academic attention. As far as we are aware, this is the first time that formal techniques have been applied to a production configuration language. This has identified weaknesses in the language design and exposed bugs in the production implementation. The analysis of this comparatively simple language provides the justification for a formal analysis of more recent (and more complex) production languages.
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- Non-English
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