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Priorities in process algebra
, 1999
"... This chapter surveys the semantic rami cations of extending traditional process algebras with notions of priority that allow for some transitions to be given precedence over others. The need for these enriched formalisms arises when one wishes to model system features such asinterrupts, prioritized ..."
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This chapter surveys the semantic rami cations of extending traditional process algebras with notions of priority that allow for some transitions to be given precedence over others. The need for these enriched formalisms arises when one wishes to model system features such asinterrupts, prioritized choice, orreal-time behavior. Approaches to priority in process algebras can be classi ed according to whether the induced notion of pre-emption on transitions is global or local and whether priorities are static or dynamic. Early work in the area concentrated on global preemption and static priorities and led to formalisms for modeling interrupts and aspects of real-time, such as maximal progress, in centralized computing environments. More recent research has investigated localized notions of pre-emption in which the distribution of systems is taken into account, as well as dynamic priority approaches, i.e., those where priority values may change as systems evolve. The latter allows one to model behavioral phenomena such as scheduling algorithms and also enables the e cient encoding of real-time semantics. Technically, this chapter studies the di erent models of priorities by presenting extensions of Milner's Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) with static and dynamic priority as well as with notions of global and local pre-emption. In each case the operational semantics of CCS is modi ed appropriately, behavioral theories based on strong and weak bisimulation are given, and related approaches for di erent process-algebraic settings are discussed.
The Tile Model
- PROOF, LANGUAGE AND INTERACTION: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ROBIN MILNER
, 1996
"... In this paper we introduce a model for a wide class of computational systems, whose behaviour can be described by certain rewriting rules. We gathered our inspiration both from the world of term rewriting, in particular from the rewriting logic framework [Mes92], and of concurrency theory: among the ..."
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In this paper we introduce a model for a wide class of computational systems, whose behaviour can be described by certain rewriting rules. We gathered our inspiration both from the world of term rewriting, in particular from the rewriting logic framework [Mes92], and of concurrency theory: among the others, the structured operational semantics [Plo81], the context systems [LX90] and the structured transition systems [CM92] approaches. Our model recollects many properties of these sources: first, it provides a compositional way to describe both the states and the sequences of transitions performed by a given system, stressing their distributed nature. Second, a suitable notion of typed proof allows to take into account also those formalisms relying on the notions of synchronization and side-effects to determine the actual behaviour of a system. Finally, an equivalence relation over sequences of transitions is defined, equipping the system under analysis with a concurrent semantics, ...
A Process Algebra of Communicating Shared Resources with Dense Time and Priorities
- THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
, 1997
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A general conservative extension theorem in process algebra
- THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
, 1994
"... We prove a general conservative extension theorem for transition system based process theories with easy-to-check and reasonable conditions. The core of this result is another general theorem which gives sufficient conditions for a system of operational rules and an extension of it in order to ensur ..."
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We prove a general conservative extension theorem for transition system based process theories with easy-to-check and reasonable conditions. The core of this result is another general theorem which gives sufficient conditions for a system of operational rules and an extension of it in order to ensure conservativity, that is, provable transitions from an original term in the extension are the same as in the original system. As a simple corollary of the conservative extension theorem we prove a completeness theorem. We also prove a general theorem giving sufficient conditions to reduce the question of ground confluence modulo some equations for a large term rewriting system associated with an equational process theory to a small term rewriting system under the condition that the large system is a conservative extension of the small one. We provide many applications to show that our results are useful. The applications include (but are not limited to) various real and discrete time settings in ACP, ATP, and CCS and the notions
Axiomatizing Prefix Iteration with Silent Steps
- INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
, 1996
"... Prefix iteration is a variation on the original binary version of the Kleene star operation P Q, obtained by restricting the first argument to be an atomic action. The ..."
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Prefix iteration is a variation on the original binary version of the Kleene star operation P Q, obtained by restricting the first argument to be an atomic action. The
Expressiveness Results for Process Algebras
, 1993
"... The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an effective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no effective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all effective process ..."
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The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an effective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no effective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all effective process graphs up to trace equivalence. A natural class of Plotkin style SOS specifications is identified, containing the guarded versions of calculi like CCS, SCCS, Meije and ACP, and it is proved that any specification in this class induces an effective operational semantics. Using techniques introduced by Bloom, it is shown that for the guarded versions of CCS-like calculi, there is a double exponential bound on the speed with which the number of outgoing transitions in a state can grow. As a corollary of this result it follows that two expressiveness results of De Simone for Meije and SCCS depend in a fundamental way on the use of unguarded recursion. A final result of this paper is that all operators definable via a finite number of rules in a format due to De Simone, are derived operators in the simple process calculus PC. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 68Q05, 68Q10, 68Q55, 68Q75, 03D20. 1991 CR Categories: D.3.1, D.3.3, F.1.1, F.1.2, F.3.2, F.4.1. Keywords & Phrases: process algebra, PC, labeled transition systems, process graphs, effective process graphs, effective operational semantics, structural operational semantics, expressiveness, bisimulation equivalence, trace equivalence, action transducers. Notes: Most of this work was carried out while the author was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, supported by ONR contract N00014-85-K-0168. Part of this work took place in the context of the ESPRIT Basic Research Action 7166, CONCUR2. This p...
From SOS Rules to Proof Principles: An Operational Metatheory for Functional Languages
- In Proc. POPL'97, the 24 th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
, 1997
"... Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) is a widely used formalism for specifying the computational meaning of programs, and is commonly used in specifying the semantics of functional languages. Despite this widespread use there has been relatively little work on the imetatheoryj for such semantics. ..."
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Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) is a widely used formalism for specifying the computational meaning of programs, and is commonly used in specifying the semantics of functional languages. Despite this widespread use there has been relatively little work on the imetatheoryj for such semantics. As a consequence the operational approach to reasoning is considered ad hoc since the same basic proof techniques and reasoning tools are reestablished over and over, once for each operational semantics speciøcation. This paper develops some metatheory for a certain class of SOS language speciøcations for functional languages. We deøne a rule format, Globally Deterministic SOS (gdsos), and establish some proof principles for reasoning about equivalence which are sound for all languages which can be expressed in this format. More speciøcally, if the SOS rules for the operators of a language conform to the syntax of the gdsos format, then ffl a syntactic analogy of continuity holds, which rel...
Axiomatizing GSOS with Termination
- THE JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND ALGEBRAIC PROGRAMMING
, 2004
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CCS with Hennessy’s merge has no finite equational axiomatization
- Theoretical Computer Science
, 2005
"... This paper confirms a conjecture of Bergstra and Klop’s from 1984 by establishing that the process algebra obtained by adding an auxiliary operator proposed by Hennessy in 1981 to the recursion free fragment of Milner’s Calculus of Communicationg Systems is not finitely based modulo bisimulation equ ..."
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This paper confirms a conjecture of Bergstra and Klop’s from 1984 by establishing that the process algebra obtained by adding an auxiliary operator proposed by Hennessy in 1981 to the recursion free fragment of Milner’s Calculus of Communicationg Systems is not finitely based modulo bisimulation equivalence. Thus Hennessy’s merge cannot replace the left merge and communication merge operators proposed by Bergstra and Klop, at least if a finite axiomatization of parallel composition is desired.
