Abstract
Recent progress on defining abstract trace semantics for coalgebras rests upon two observations: (i) coalgebraic bisimulation for deterministic automata coincides with trace equivalence, and (ii) the classical powerset construction for automata determinization instantiates the generic idea of lifting a functor to the Eilenberg-Moore category of an appropriate monad \(\mathbb{T}\). We take this approach one step further by rebasing the latter kind of trace semantics on the novel notion of \(\mathbb{T}\) -observer, which is just a certain natural transformation of the form F → GT, and thus allowing for elimination of assumptions about the structure of the coalgebra functor. As a specific application of this idea we demonstrate how it can be used for capturing trace semantics of push-down automata. Furthermore, we show how specific forms of observers can be used for coalgebra-based treatment of internal automata transitions as well as weak bisimilarity of processes.
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Goncharov, S. (2013). Trace Semantics via Generic Observations. In: Heckel, R., Milius, S. (eds) Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science. CALCO 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8089. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40206-7_13
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