From Process Calculi to Process Frameworks

  • Authors:
  • Philippa Gardner

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present two process frameworks: the action calculi of Milner, and the fusion systems of Gardner and Wischik. The action calculus framework is based on process constructs arising from the π-calculus. We give a non-standard presentation of the π-calculus, to emphasise the similarities between the calculus and the framework. The fusion system framework generalises a new process calculus called the πF-calculus. We describe the πF-calculus, which is based on different process constructs to those of the π-calculus, and show that the generalisation from the calculus to the framework is simple. We compare the frameworks by studying examples.