Sampling, splitting and merging in coinductive stream calculus

  • Authors:
  • Milad Niqui;Jan Rutten

  • Affiliations:
  • Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands;Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • MPC'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mathematics of program construction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study various operations for partitioning, projecting and merging streams of data. These operations are motivated by their use in dataflow programming and the stream processing languages. We use the framework of stream calculus and stream circuits for defining and proving properties of such operations using behavioural differential equations and coinduction proof principles. We study the invariance of certain well patterned classes of streams, namely rational and algebraic streams, under splitting and merging. Finally we show that stream circuits extended with gates for dyadic split and merge are expressive enough to realise some non-rational algebraic streams, thereby going beyond ordinary stream circuits.