A core calculus for a comparative analysis of bio-inspired calculi

  • Authors:
  • Cristian Versari

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ESOP'07 Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Programming
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The application of process calculi theory to the modeling and the analysis of biological phenomena has recently attracted the interests of the scientific community. To this aim several specialized, bio-inspired process calculi have been proposed, but a formal comparison of their expressivity is still lacking. In this paper we present π@, an extension of the π-Calculus with priorities and polyadic synchronisation that turns out to be suitable to act as a core platform for the comparison of other calculi. Here we show π@ at work by providing "reasonable" encodings of the two most popular calculi for modeling membrane interactions, namely, BioAmbients and Brane Calculi.