Bridging Causal Reversibility and Time Reversibility: A Stochastic Process Algebraic Approach

DOI10.46298/LMCS-19(2:6)2023MaRDI QIDQ6135754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Bernardo, Claudio Antares Mezzina

Publication date 26 August 2023

Published in Logical Methods in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01420

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Logic in computer science (03B70) Computer science (68-XX)

Abstract: Causal reversibility blends reversibility and causality for concurrent systems. It indicates that an action can be undone provided that all of its consequences have been undone already, thus making it possible to bring the system back to a past consistent state. Time reversibility is instead considered in the field of stochastic processes, mostly for efficient analysis purposes. A performance model based on a continuous-time Markov chain is time reversible if its stochastic behavior remains the same when the direction of time is reversed. We bridge these two theories of reversibility by showing the conditions under which causal reversibility and time reversibility are both ensured by construction. This is done in the setting of a stochastic process calculus, which is then equipped with a variant of stochastic bisimilarity accounting for both forward and backward directions.

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