TY  - CHAP
EP  - 25
PB  - Springer
SP  - 9
T3  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
A1  - De Nicola, Rocco
A1  - Latella, Diego
A1  - Loreti, Michele
A1  - Massink, Mieke
T2  - Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2009)
AV  - none
TI  - On a Uniform Framework for the Definition of Stochastic Process Languages
ID  - eprints274
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04570-7_2
SN  - 978-3-642-04569-1
Y1  - 2009///
M1  - 5825
ED  - Alpuente, Maria
ED  - Cook, Byron
ED  - Joubert, Christophe
N2  - In this paper we show how Rate Transition Systems (RTSs) can be used as a unifying framework for the definition of the semantics of stochastic process algebras. RTSs facilitate the compositional definition of such semantics exploiting operators on the next state functions which are the functional counterpart of classical process algebra operators. We apply this framework to representative fragments of major stochastic process calculi namely TIPP, PEPA and IML and show how they solve the issue of transition multiplicity in a simple and elegant way. We, moreover, show how RTSs help describing different languages, their differences and their similarities. For each calculus, we also show the formal correspondence between the RTSs semantics and the standard SOS one.
ER  -