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Model Theory for Process Algebra

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Processes, Terms and Cycles: Steps on the Road to Infinity

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We present a first-order extension of the algebraic theory about processes known as ACP and its main models. Useful predicates on processes, such as deadlock freedom and determinism, can be added to this theory through first-order definitional extensions. Model theory is used to analyse the discrepancies between identity in the models of the first-order extension of ACP and bisimilarity of the transition systems extracted from these models, and also the discrepancies between deadlock freedom in the models of a suitable first-order definitional extension of this theory and deadlock freedom of the transition systems extracted from these models. First-order definitions are material to the formalization of an interpretation of one theory about processes in another. We give a comprehensive example of such an interpretation too.

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  1. Programming Research Group, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan A. Bergstra

  2. Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80126, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan A. Bergstra

  3. Computing Science Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    C. A. (Kees) Middelburg

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Aart Middeldorp

  2. Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 8, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Vincent van Oostrom

  3. Department of Theoretical Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Femke van Raamsdonk

  4. VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,  

    Roel de Vrijer

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Bergstra, J.A., Middelburg, C.A.(. (2005). Model Theory for Process Algebra. In: Middeldorp, A., van Oostrom, V., van Raamsdonk, F., de Vrijer, R. (eds) Processes, Terms and Cycles: Steps on the Road to Infinity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11601548_21

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