TY - JOUR JF - Information and Computation PB - Elsevier IS - 1 SN - 0890-5401 EP - 52 ID - eprints361 N2 - We use symbolic transition systems as a basis for providing the?-calculus with an alternative semantics. The latter is more amenable to automatic manipulation and sheds light on the logical differences among different forms of bisimulation over algebras of name-passing processes. Symbolic transitions have the form[formula], where?is a boolean combination of equalities on names that has to hold for the transition to take place, and?is standard a?-calculus action. On top of the symbolic transition system, a symbolic bisimulation is defined that captures the standard ones. Finally, a sound and complete proof system is introduced for symbolic bisimulation. Y1 - 1996/// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890540196900322 A1 - Boreale, Michele A1 - De Nicola, Rocco VL - 126 AV - none N1 - An extended abstract of this paper appears in: B. Jonsson and J. Parrow (eds.), Proceedings of CONCUR'94, Lectures Notes in Computer Science 836, Springer-Verlag, 1994. SP - 34 TI - A Symbolic Semantics for the pi-Calculus ER -