Deciding Reachability in Mobile Ambients with Name Restriction

  • Authors:
  • Giorgio Delzanno;Roberto Montagna

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate the reachability problem for fragments of the Mobile Ambients, a powerful model for distributed and mobile computation. By using a connection with associative-commutative term rewriting, we prove that reachability is decidable in the open-free fragment of pure Mobile Ambients with name restriction and weak reduction semantics. Processes in this model have three sources of infiniteness: depth of ambients, width of parallel composition, and number of restricted names. Our work extends similar results obtained for public fragments of Mobile Ambients.