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Compositional Event Structure Semantics for the Internal π-Calculus

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We propose the first compositional event structure semantics for a very expressive π-calculus, generalising Winskel’s event structures for CCS. The π-calculus we model is the πI-calculus with recursive definitions and summations. First we model the synchronous calculus, introducing a notion of dynamic renaming to the standard operators on event structures. Then we model the asynchronous calculus, for which a new additional operator, called rooting, is necessary for representing causality due to new name binding. The semantics are shown to be operationally adequate and sound with respect to bisimulation.

Work partially supported by MIUR (project 2005015785), Università di Padova (project CPDA061331), EPSRC (GR/S55538/01, GR/T04724/01 and GR/T03208/01) and ANR (project ParSec ANR-06-SETI-010-02).

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  1. Università di Padova,  

    Silvia Crafa

  2. PPS - Université Paris 7 & CNRS,  

    Daniele Varacca

  3. Imperial College London,  

    Nobuko Yoshida

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Crafa, S., Varacca, D., Yoshida, N. (2007). Compositional Event Structure Semantics for the Internal π-Calculus . In: Caires, L., Vasconcelos, V.T. (eds) CONCUR 2007 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4703. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74407-8_22

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