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Dependency-based action refinement

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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1997 (MFCS 1997)

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Action refinement in process algebras has been widely studied in the last few years as a means to support top-down design of systems. A specific notion of refinement arises when a dependency relation on the actions (in the Mazurkiewicz sense) is used to control the inheritance of orderings from the abstract level. In this paper we present a rather simple operational semantics for dependency-based action refinement. We show the consistency of the operational with a (previously published) denotational semantics. We moreover show that bisimulation is a congruence for dependency-based refinement. Finally, we give an illustrative example.

The research reported in this paper was partially supported by the Human Capital and Mobility Cooperation Network “EXPRESS” (Expressiveness of Languages for Concurrency).

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Rensink, A., Wehrheim, H. (1997). Dependency-based action refinement. In: Prívara, I., Ružička, P. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1997. MFCS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029990

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