Equational reasoning for non-determinism monad: the case of Spark aggregation

Abstract: As part of the author's studies on equational reasoning for monadic programs, this report focus on non-determinism monad. We discuss what properties this monad should satisfy, what additional operators and notations can be introduced to facilitate equational reasoning about non-determinism, and put them to the test by proving a number of properties in our example problem inspired by the author's previous work on proving properties of Spark aggregation.