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On Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Paradigms

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The π-calculus, its asynchronous version and Boudol’s mapping from the former language to the latter one are well-known mathematical objects in theoretical computer science. It is also well-known that the mappingi s not fully-abstract w.r.t. most of the semantics defined over these two languages.

In this paper we study and fix conditions on the existance of fully-abstract results for Boudol’s mapping (and its variants). The testing theories à la De Nicola-Hennessy turned out to be very useful tools for such a purpose.

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Cacciagrano, D., Corradini, F. (2001). On Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication Paradigms. In: Theoretical Computer Science. ICTCS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45446-2_16

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