DISTRIBUTED BISIMULATIONS

被引:30
作者
CASTELLANI, I [1 ]
HENNESSY, M [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV SUSSEX,BRIGHTON BN1 9QH,E SUSSEX,ENGLAND
关键词
Computer Metatheory - Computer Systems; Digital--Distributed - Mathematical Techniques--Algebra;
D O I
10.1145/76359.76369
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
A new equivalence between concurrent processes is proposed. It generalizes the well-known bisimulation equivalance to take into account the distributed nature of processes. The result is a noninterleaving semantic theory; concurrent processes are differentiated from processes that are nondeterministic but sequential. The new equivalence, together with its observational version, is investigated for a subset of the language CCS, and various algebraic characterizations are obtained.
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页码:887 / 911
页数:25
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