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Refinement in Interworkings

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CONCUR '96: Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 1996)

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Interworkings is a graphical language for displaying the interaction between system components. In this paper we give a formal semantics for Interworkings based on process algebra. A notion of refinement on Interworkings will be defined.

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Ugo Montanari Vladimiro Sassone

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Mauw, S., Reniers, M.A. (1996). Refinement in Interworkings. In: Montanari, U., Sassone, V. (eds) CONCUR '96: Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61604-7_83

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