The Saga of the Axiomatization of Parallel Composition

Forfattere

  • Luca Aceto
  • Anna Ingólfsdóttir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v14i11.21933

Resumé

This paper surveys some classic and recent results on the finite axiomatizability of bisimilarity over CCS-like languages. It focuses, in particular, on non-finite axiomatizability results stemming from the semantic interplay between parallel composition and nondeterministic choice. The paper also highlights the role that auxiliary operators, such as Bergstra and Klop's left and communication merge and Hennessy's merge operator, play in the search for a finite, equational axiomatization of parallel composition both for classic process algebras and for their real-time extensions.

Downloads

Publiceret

2007-06-12

Citation/Eksport

Aceto, L., & Ingólfsdóttir, A. (2007). The Saga of the Axiomatization of Parallel Composition. BRICS Report Series, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v14i11.21933