Formal Relationships Between Geometrical and Classical Models for Concurrency

  • Authors:
  • íRic Goubault;Samuel Mimram

  • Affiliations:
  • DILS/MeASI, Institut Carnot CEA LIST, CEA Saclay Nanoinnov, point courrier 174, Gif-sur-Yvette, F-91191, France;DILS/MeASI, Institut Carnot CEA LIST, CEA Saclay Nanoinnov, point courrier 174, Gif-sur-Yvette, F-91191, France

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A wide variety of models for concurrent programs has been proposed during the past decades, each one focusing on various aspects of computations: trace equivalence, causality between events, conflicts and schedules due to resource accesses, etc. More recently, models with a geometrical flavor have been introduced, based on the notion of cubical set. These models are very rich and expressive since they can represent commutation between any number of events, thus generalizing the principle of true concurrency. While they are emerging as a central tool in concurrency, which is very promising because they make possible the use of techniques from algebraic topology in order to study concurrent computations, they have not yet been precisely related to the previous models, and the purpose of this paper is to fill this gap. In particular, we describe an adjunction between Petri nets and cubical sets which extends the previously known adjunction between Petri nets and asynchronous transition systems by Nielsen and Winskel.