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A general construct for locality in languages based on asynchronous communication is introduced which allows a uniform semantic description of such apparently diverse notions as the introduction of local variables in concurrent imperative languages with shared variables and the hiding of logical variables in concurrent constraint languages.
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de Boer, F.S., Kok, J.N., Palamidessi, C., Rutten, J.J.M.M. (1993). On blocks: locality and asynchronous communication. In: de Bakker, J.W., de Roever, W.P., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Semantics: Foundations and Applications. REX 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56596-5_29
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