David de Frutos Escrig ; Carlos Gregorio-Rodríguez ; Miguel Palomino ; David Romero Hernández - Unifying the Linear Time-Branching Time Spectrum of Process Semantics

lmcs:983 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, June 27, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 2 - https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-9(2:11)2013
Unifying the Linear Time-Branching Time Spectrum of Process SemanticsArticle

Authors: David de Frutos Escrig ORCID; Carlos Gregorio-Rodríguez ORCID; Miguel Palomino ORCID; David Romero Hernández ORCID

    Van Glabbeek's linear time-branching time spectrum is one of the most relevant work on comparative study on process semantics, in which semantics are partially ordered by their discrimination power. In this paper we bring forward a refinement of this classification and show how the process semantics can be dealt with in a uniform way: based on the very natural concept of constrained simulation we show how we can classify the spectrum in layers; for the families lying in the same layer we show how to obtain in a generic way equational, observational, logical and operational characterizations; relations among layers are also very natural and differences just stem from the constraint imposed on the simulations that rule the layers. Our methodology also shows how to achieve a uniform treatment of semantic preorders and equivalences.


    Volume: Volume 9, Issue 2
    Published on: June 27, 2013
    Imported on: March 6, 2012
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science

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