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International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming

ICALP 1997: Automata, Languages and Programming pp 482–492Cite as

Basic observables for processes

  • Session 12:Process Equivalences
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Abstract

We propose a general approach to define behavioural preorders over process terms by considering the pre-congruences induced by three basic observables. These observables provide information about the initial communication capabilities of processes and about their possibility of engaging in an infinite internal chattering. We show that some of the observables-based pre-congruences do correspond to behavioral preorders long studied in the literature. The coincidence proofs shed light on the differences between the must preorder of De Nicola and Hennessy and the fair/should preorder of Cleaveland and Natarajan and of Brinksma, Rensink and Vogler, and on the rôle played in their definition by tests for internal chattering.

Work partially supported by EEC: HCM project EXPRESS, by CNR project “Specifica ad alto livello e verifica formale di sistemi digitali” and by Istituto di Elaborazione delPInformazione CNR, Pisa.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

    Michele Boreale

  2. Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università di Firenze, Italy

    Rocco de Nicola & Rosario Pugliese

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Boreale, M., de Nicola, R., Pugliese, R. (1997). Basic observables for processes. In: Degano, P., Gorrieri, R., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63165-8_204

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