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A Denotational Study of Mobility

Authors: Bialkiewicz, Joël-Alexis, Peschanski, Frederic

Abstract:

This paper introduces a denotational model and refinement theory for a process algebra with mobile channels. Similarly to CSP, process behaviours are recorded as trace sets. To account for branching-time semantics, the traces are decorated by structured locations that are also used to encode the dynamics of channel mobility in a denotational way. We present an original notion of split-equivalence based on elementary trace transformations. It is first characterised coinductively using the notion of split-relation. Building on the principle of trace normalisation, a more denotational characterisation is also proposed. We then exhibit a preorder underlying this equivalence and motivate its use as a proper refinement operator. At the language level, we show refinement to be tightly related to a construct of delayed sums, a generalisation of non-deterministic choices.

Proceedings:

Communicating Process Architectures 2009, Peter H. Welch, Herman Roebbers, Jan F. Broenink, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Carl G. Ritson, Adam T. Sampson, G. S. Stiles, Brian Vinter, 2009, pp 239 - 261 published by IOS Press, Amsterdam

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