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Back and forth bisimulations on prime event structures

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Back and forth bisimulations have been first introduced in [DNMV90]. In this paper, we propose a definition of back and forth bisimulalion for event structures. We show that our proposal can be adapted in a uniform way to yield step back and forth bisimulalion and pomset back and forth bisimulalion. We investigate these new equivalences and compare them to other branching time semantics.

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Cherief, F. (1992). Back and forth bisimulations on prime event structures. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_128

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