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Rewriting techniques for the temporal analysis of communicating processes

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State transitions systems are the most commonly used model for the static analysis of the dynamic behaviour of parallel programs. One difficulty for implementing such analyzers is the lack of structure of the set of states. As a consequence, only finite state systems are considered as analyzable. We present a method based on term rewriting, which permits to mechanically deal with transition systems having an infinite number of states, and show how it can be applied to the FP2 programming language where communicating processes are described through rewrite rules.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle, Grenoble, France

    Ph. Schnoebelen

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Schnoebelen, P. (1987). Rewriting techniques for the temporal analysis of communicating processes. In: de Bakker, J.W., Nijman, A.J., Treleaven, P.C. (eds) PARLE Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17945-3_23

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