Expressiveness results for process algebras:

Abstract: "The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an effective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no effective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all effe...

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1. Verfasser: Vaandrager, Frits W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam 1993
Schriftenreihe:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam> / Department of Computer Science: Report CS 93,1
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract: "The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an effective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no effective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all effective process graphs up to trace equivalence. A natural class of Plotkin style SOS specifications is identified, containing the guarded versions of calculi like CCS, SCCS, MEIJE and ACP, and it is proved that any specification in this class induces an effective operational semantics
Using techniques introduced by Bloom, it is shown that for the guarded vesions of CCS-like calculi, there is a double exponential bound on the speed with which the number of outgoing transitions in a state can grow. As a corollary of this result it follows that two expressiveness results of De Simone for MEIJE and SCCS depend in a fundamental way on the use of unguarded recursion. A final result of this paper is that all operators definable via a finite number of rules in a format due to De Simone, are derived operators in the simple process calculus PC.
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