A new format for process algebras

V.C. Galpin

Seminar, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, December 1998

Abstract

Since the development of CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems) and other process algebras based on structured operational semantics, many extensions to these process algebras have been proposed to model different aspects of concurrent computation. It is important both theoretically and practically to understand the relationships between these process algebras and between the semantic equivalences that are defined for them.


In this talk, I will first discuss a new format that I have developed which is suitable to describe process algebras with non-atomic actions (a feature of most of the extensions to CCS). I will give a brief introduction to process algebras, and show why the new format ensures that strong bisimulation is a congruence for any operator defined with the format. I will present a number of extension results for the new format which permit the comparison of different semantic equivalences and briefly give an example of a comparison. 


Finally, I will give a brief overview of how process algebras have been used to show fault-tolerance and describe some potential further research in this direction. 


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