TY - JOUR N2 - We introduce a unifying framework to provide the semantics of process algebras, including their quantitative variants useful for modeling quantitative aspects of behaviors. The unifying framework is then used to describe some of the most representative stochastic process algebras. This provides a general and clear support for an understanding of their similarities and differences. The framework is based on State to Function Labeled Transition Systems, FuTSs for short, that are state transition structures where each transition is a triple of the form (s,?, JF - ACM Computing Surveys Y1 - 2013/10// SN - 0360-0300 UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2522973 IS - 1 KW - Combinatorics; Probability and statistics; Models of computation AV - none ID - eprints2707 TI - A uniform definition of stochastic process calculi SP - 1 A1 - De Nicola, Rocco A1 - Latella, Diego A1 - Loreti, Michele A1 - Massink, Mieke VL - 46 EP - 35 PB - ACM ER -