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2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Specification Language TLA+
verfasst von : Stephan Merz
Erschienen in: Logics of Specification Languages
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The specification language TLA
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was designed by Lamport for formally describing and reasoning about distributed algorithms. It is described in Lamport’s book Specifying Systems [29], which also gives good advice on how to make the best use of TLA
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and its supporting tools. Systems are specified in TLA
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as formulas of the Temporal Logic of Actions, TLA, a variant of linear-time temporal logic also introduced by Lamport [27]. The underlying data structures are specified in (a variant of) Zermelo-Fränkel set theory, the language accepted by most mathematicians as the standard basis for formalizing mathematics. This choice is motivated by a desire for conciseness, clarity, and formality that befits a language of formal specification where executability or efficiency are not of major concern. TLA
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specifications are organized in modules that can be reused independently.