Theory by process

  • Authors:
  • Yuxi Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • BASICS, Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai and MOE-MS Key Laboratory for Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR'10 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Concurrency theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Theories defined in a process model are formalized and studied. A theory in a process calculus is a set of perpetually available processes with finite interactability, each can be regarded as a service, an agent behind the scene or an axiom. The operational and observational semantics of the theories are investigated. The power of the approach is demonstrated by interpreting the asynchronous π-calculus as a theory, the asynchronous theory, in the π-calculus. A complete axiomatic system is constructed for the asynchronous theory, which gives rise to a proof system for the weak asynchronous bisimilarity of the asynchronous π.