Port automata and the algebra of concurrent porcesses (Q791319)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3850477
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    Port automata and the algebra of concurrent porcesses
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3850477

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      Port automata and the algebra of concurrent porcesses (English)
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      1983
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      A relatively simple and straightforward model of communicating processes is presented. The model parallels that of \textit{G. Milne} and \textit{R. Milner} [J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 26, 302-321 (1979; Zbl 0395.68030)], but here a process (i.e. the unit of concurrent processing) is modelled by a port automaton, a certain type of nondeterministic sequential machine. To define and to compute the response of the port automaton, a theory of greatest fixpoints is applied. It is shown that using an automata- theoretic approach to concurrency, an algebraic notion of process may be defined without requiring ordered sets.
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      communicating processes
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      concurrent processing
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      port automaton
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      nondeterministic sequential machine
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      greatest fixpoints
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      concurrency
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