Basic process algebra with deadlocking states

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Srba

  • Affiliations:
  • Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic, and Univ. of Aarhus, Aarhus , Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Bisimilarity and regularity are decidable properties for the class of BPA (or context-free) processes (Christensen et al., Inform. and Comput. 121 (1995) 143-148; Burkart et al., Proc. CONCUR'96, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1119, Springer, Berlin, 1996, pp. 247-262). We extend BPA with a deadlocking state obtaining BPA &dgr;systems. We show that the BPA &dgr; class is more expressive w.r.t. bisimilarity, but it remains language equivalent to BPA. We prove that bisimilarity and regularity remain decidable for BPA &dgr;. Finally, we give a characterisation of those BPA&dgr; processes that can be equivalently (up to bisimilarity) described within the "pure" BPA syntax. Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.