relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2212/
title: Dimming relations for the efficient analysis of concurrent systems via action abstraction
creator: De Nicola, Rocco
creator: Iacobelli, Giulio
creator: Tribastone, Mirco
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: We study models of concurrency based on labelled transition systems where abstractions are induced by a partition of the action set. We introduce dimming relations which are able to relate two models if they can mimic each other by using actions from the same partition block. Moreover, we discuss the necessary requirements for guaranteeing compositional verification. We show how our new relations and results can be exploited when seemingly heterogeneous systems exhibit analogous behaviours manifested via different actions. Dimming relations make the models more homogeneous by collapsing such distinct actions into the same partition block. With our examples, we show how these abstractions may considerably reduce the state-space size, in some cases from exponential to polynomial complexity.
publisher: Springer 
date: 2014
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   De Nicola, Rocco and Iacobelli, Giulio and Tribastone, Mirco  Dimming relations for the efficient analysis of concurrent systems via action abstraction.   In:  Formal techniques for distributed objects, components, and systems.   Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (8461).  Springer , pp. 216-231.  ISBN 978-3-662-43612-7      (2014)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43613-4_14
relation: 10.1007/978-3-662-43613-4_14