An overview of the Maude strategy language and its applications

Abstract

In the Maude specification language, the behavior of systems is modeled by nondeterministic rewrite rules, whose free application may not always be desirable. Hence, a strategy language has been introduced to control the application of rules at a high level, without the intricacies of metaprogramming. In this paper, we give an overview of the Maude strategy language, its applications, related verification tools, and extensions, illustrated with examples.