TY - CHAP N1 - ©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com AV - public TI - On Observing Dynamic Prioritised Actions in SOC SP - 558 T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02930-1_46 M1 - 5556 A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tiezzi, Francesco A1 - Yoshida, Nobuko Y1 - 2009/// ED - Albers, Susanne ED - Marchetti-Spaccamela, Alberto ED - Matias, Yossi ED - E. Nikoletseas, Sotiris ED - Thomas, Wolfgang SN - 978-3-642-02929-5 ID - eprints405 EP - 570 N2 - We study the impact on observational semantics for SOC of priority mechanisms which combine dynamic priority with local pre-emption. We define manageable notions of strong and weak labelled bisimilarities for COWS, a process calculus for SOC, and provide alternative characterisations in terms of open barbed bisimilarities. These semantics show that COWS?s priority mechanisms partially recover the capability to observe receive actions (that could not be observed in a purely asynchronous setting) and that high priority primitives for termination impose specific conditions on the bisimilarities. PB - Springer T2 - Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP (2) 2009) ER -