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On properties preserved by contractions of concurrent systems

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Semantics of Concurrent Computation

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 70))

Abstract

We propose a definition of representation map between concurrent systems called a contraction, which is intended to capture the notion of a safe simulation of an abstract by a concrete system. We give several examples and investigate some specific behavioral properties (such as nontermination) which might be preserved by contractions or their inverses. In the second part of the paper, we use model theory to study the decidability properties of the set of sentences preserved by contractions.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, The University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    John S. Gourlay & William C. Rounds

  2. Department of Philosophy, The University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Richard Statman

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  1. John S. Gourlay
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Gourlay, J.S., Rounds, W.C., Statman, R. (1979). On properties preserved by contractions of concurrent systems. In: Kahn, G. (eds) Semantics of Concurrent Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022463

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