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An ASM Model of Concurrency in a Web Browser

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Book cover Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z (ABZ 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 7316))

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We define an abstract standards-compliant web browser model. The model focuses on those parts of the browser behaviour which are most relevant for the deployment and execution of web applications, such as interaction with a scripting language (here, ECMAScript), cookies, and asynchronous behaviour of the network layer, while hiding other aspects, such as page navigation and presentational issues.

We use a multi-agent Abstract State Machine as our formal model, showing how the browser behaviour can be partitioned into a number of distinct components, and specifying precisely their interactions. The specification can also be used as basis to prove consistency properties of common frameworks for web applications.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Vincenzo Gervasi

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, UTS, Sydney, Australia

    Vincenzo Gervasi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK

    John Derrick

  2. Newcastle University, UK

    John Fitzgerald

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Stefania Gnesi

  4. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C5000, 78712-0240, Austin, TX, USA

    Sarfraz Khurshid

  5. Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany

    Michael Leuschel

  6. Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, 3240, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Steve Reeves

  7. Department of Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Elvinia Riccobene

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Gervasi, V. (2012). An ASM Model of Concurrency in a Web Browser. In: Derrick, J., et al. Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30885-7_6

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