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Locality Based Semantics for Process Algebras

Corradini, Flavio and De Nicola, Rocco Locality Based Semantics for Process Algebras. Acta Informatica, 34 (4). pp. 291-324. ISSN 0001-5903 (1997)

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Abstract

A general framework proposed by Degano, De Nicola and Montanari has been fruitful to define in a natural way non interleaving semantics for process description languages based on causality. The framework relies on a decomposition function used to obtain the set of its sequential processes from a parallel term, and on a set of distributed transition rules carrying information about the actions processes can perform and their location. In this paper we show that also semantics discriminating according to space distribution of processes can be formulated in a natural way within this framework. Two new semantics are proposed. The first one is based on an alternative characterization of the locality equivalence of Boudol, Castellani, Hennessy and Kiehn. Over the latter, our equivalence has the advantage of not requiring explicit introduction of a (infinite) space of locations; this makes it amenable to a mechanical treatment in the same vein as the classical bisimulation-based equivalences. The second semantics is proposed via a direct generalization of Castellani and Hennessy's distributed equivalence to languages with global scoping operators.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: 10.1007/s002360050086
Funders: This work has been partially funded by EEC within the HCM Project EXPRESS, and by CNR within the project “Specifica ad Alto Livello e Verifica di Sistemi Digitali”.
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Research Area: Computer Science and Applications
Depositing User: Rocco De Nicola
Date Deposited: 09 Jun 2011 10:24
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2011 14:36
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/355

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