Towards bialgebraic semantics for the linear time --- branching time spectrum

  • Authors:
  • Ana Paula Maldonado;Luí/s Monteiro;Markus Roggenbach

  • Affiliations:
  • CITI, Departamento de Inform$#225/tica, Faculdade de Ciê/ncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;CITI, Departamento de Inform$#225/tica, Faculdade de Ciê/ncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;Swansea University, Wales, UK

  • Venue:
  • WADT'10 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Process algebra, e.g. CSP, offers different semantical observations (e.g. traces, failures, divergences) on a single syntactical system description. These observations are either computed algebraically from the process syntax, or "extracted" from a single operational model. Bialgebras capture both approaches in one framework and characterize their equivalence; however, due to use of finality, lack the capability to simultaneously cater for various semantics. We suggest to relax finality to quasi-finality. This allows for several semantics, which also can be coarser than bisimulation. As a case study, we show that our approach works out in the case of the CSP failures model.