A Fold/Unfold Transformation Framework for Rewrite Theories and its Application to CCT Technical Report

Many transformation systems for program optimization, program synthesis, and program specialization are based on fold/unfold transformations. In this paper, we present a fold/unfold‐based transformation framework for rewriting logic theories which is based on narrowing. For the best of our knowledge, this is the first fold/unfold transformation framework which allows one to deal with functions, rules, equations, sorts, and algebraic laws (such as commutativity and associativity). We provide correctness results for the transformation system w.r.t. the semantics of ground reducts. Moreover, we show how our transformation technique can be naturally applied to implement a Code Carrying Theory (CCT) system. CCT is an approach for securing delivery of code from a producer to a consumer where only a certificate (usually in the form of assertions and proofs) is transmitted from the producer to the consumer who can check its validity and then extract executable code from it. Within our framework, the certificate consists of a sequence of transformation steps which can be applied to a given consumer specification in order to automatically synthesize safe code in agreement with the original requirements. We also provide an implementation of the program transformation framework in the high‐performance, rewriting logic language Maude which, by means of an experimental evaluation of the system, highlights the potentiality of our approach.

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