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Instruction sequences for the production of processes (2008)

Abstract
Single-pass instruction sequences under execution are considered to produce behaviours to be controlled by some execution environment. Threads as considered in thread algebra model such behaviours: upon each action performed by a thread, a reply from its execution environment determines how the thread proceeds. Threads in turn can be looked upon as producing processes as considered in process algebra. We show that, by apposite choice of basic instructions, all processes that can only be in a finite number of states can be produced by single-pass instruction sequences.. Comment: 23 pages; acknowledgement corrected, reference updated

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0436
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Computer Science - Programming Languages, Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science, D.1.4, F.1.1, F.1.2, F.3.2
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