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Contractions in comparing concurrency semantics

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1988)

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We define for a simple concurrent imperative language both operational and denotational semantic models as fixed points of contractions on complete metric spaces. Next, we develop a general method for comparing different semantic models by relating their defining contractions and exploiting the fact that contractions have a unique fixed point.

The research of J.N. Kok is partially supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Research (NWO), grant 125-20-04. The research of J.N. Kok and J.J.M.M. Rutten is partially supported by ESPRIT project 415: Parallel Architectures and Languages for Advanced Information Processing — a VLSI-directed approach.

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Kok, J.N., Rutten, J.J.M.M. (1988). Contractions in comparing concurrency semantics. In: Lepistö, T., Salomaa, A. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19488-6_125

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