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Linear and branching structures in the semantics and logics of reactive systems

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1985)

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Abstract

In this presentation we reviewed the dichotomy between branching and linear views of reactive systems as they are reflected in three different approaches to the formalization of reactive systems. Hopefully we succeeded in convincing the reader that these views are distinct and represent different attitudes to the desired level of abstractness in the semantics of reactive systems. The branching view is always more detailed than the linear view, and the important question that should be left open for the user of the approach, is whether this additional detail is necessary for his application.

In this presentation we only considered the branching vs. linear dichotomy in the treatment of nondeterminism. A very similar dichotomy exists in the treatment of concurrency itself, namely between the partial order (hence acyclic graph) representation of causality and concurrency and its linearization by all the total orders consistent with this partial order. We suggest a similar study for the identification of the elements captured in the partial order which are lost in the linearization.

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Pnueli, A. (1985). Linear and branching structures in the semantics and logics of reactive systems. In: Brauer, W. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015727

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