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Metric semantics for true concurrent real time

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1998)

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This paper investigates the use of a complete metric space framework for providing denotational semantics to a real-time process algebra. The study is carried out in a non-interleaving setting and is based on a timed extension of Langerak's bundle event structures, a variant of Winskel's event structures. The distance function is based on the amount of time to which event structures do ‘agree’. We show that this intuitive notion of distance is a pseudo metric (but not a metric) on the set of timed event structures. A generalisation to equivalence classes of timed event structures in which we abstract from event names and non-executable events (events that can never appear) is shown to be a complete ultra-metric space. We show that the resulting metric semantics is an abstraction of an existing cpo-based denotational and a related operational semantics for the considered language.

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  1. Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Mannheim, Seminargebäude A5, D-68159, Mannheim, Germany

    Christel Baier

  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik VII, Friedrich- Alexander- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 3, D-91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Joost-Pieter Katoen

  3. CNUCE Istituto del CNR, Via Santa Maria 36, I-56100, Pisa, Italy

    Diego Latella

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Kim G. Larsen Sven Skyum Glynn Winskel

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Baier, C., Katoen, JP., Latella, D. (1998). Metric semantics for true concurrent real time. In: Larsen, K.G., Skyum, S., Winskel, G. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055085

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