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Denotational semantics of concurrency
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Denotational semantics of concurrency

Abstract

A general framework for the denotational treatment of concurrency is introduced. The key idea is the notion of process which is element of a domain obtained as solution of a domain equation in the style as considered previously by Plotkin. We use tools from metric topology as advocated by Nivat to solve this equation, show how operations upon processes can be defined conveniently, and illustrate the approach with the definition of a variety of …

Authors

de Bakker JW; Zucker JI

Pagination

pp. 153-158

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

1982

DOI

10.1145/800070.802188

Name of conference

Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '82