Models for Concurrency

Authors

  • Glynn Winskel
  • Mogens Nielsen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v1i12.21658

Abstract

This report surveys a range of models for parallel computation to include interleaving models like transition systems, synchronisation trees and languages (often called Hoare traces in this context), and models like Petri nets, asynchronous transition systems, event structures, pomsets and Mazurkiewicz traces where concurrency is represented more explicitly by a form of causal independence. The presentation is unified by casting the models in a category-theoretic framework. One aim is to use category theory to provide abstract characterisations of constructions like parallel composition valid throughout a range of different models and to provide formal means for translating between different models.

A knowledge of basic category theory is assumed, up to an acquaintance with the notion of adjunction.

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Published

1994-05-03

How to Cite

Winskel, G., & Nielsen, M. (1994). Models for Concurrency. BRICS Report Series, 1(12). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v1i12.21658